Alfred Drake - Where Is The Life That Late I Led? (From Kiss Me, Kate) Lyrics

Lyrics Where Is The Life That Late I Led? (From Kiss Me, Kate) - Alfred Drake



When at first aware of masculinity
I began to finger feminine curls,
I became the toast of my vicinity
For I always had a multitude of girls.
But now that a married man, at last, am I,
How aware of my dear, departed past am I.
Where is the life that late I led?
Where is it now? Totally dead.
Where is the fun I used to find?
Where has it gone? Gone with the wind.
A married life is just a pain,
And raising an heir
Could never compare
With raising a bit of hell,
So I repeat what first I said,
Where is the life that late I led?
In dear Milano, where are you, Momo,
Still selling those pictures of the Scriptures in the Duomo?
And, Carolina, where are you, Lina,
Still peddling your pizza in the streets o' Taormina?
And in Firenze, where are you, Alice,
Still there in your pretty, itty-bitty Pitti Palace?
And sweet Lucretia, so young and gay-ee?
What scandalous doin's in the ruins of Pompeii!
Where is the life that late I led?
Where is it now? Totally dead.
Where is the fun I used to find?
Where has it gone? Gone with the wind.
The marriage game is quite all right,
Yes, during the day
It's easy to play
But, oh, what a bore at night,
So I repeat what first I said
Where is the life that late I?
Where is Rebecca, my Becki-weckio,
But still she'd be cruising that amusing Ponte Vecchio?
Where is Fedora, the wild virago?
It's lucky I missed her gangster sister from Chicago.
Where is Venetia, who loved to chat so,
Could still she be drinkin' in her stinkin' pink palazzo?
And lovely Lisa, where are you, Lisa?
You gave a new meaning to the leaning tow'r of Pisa.
Where is the life that late I led?
Where is it now? Totally dead.
Where is the fun I used to find?
Where has it gone? Gone with the wind.
I've oft been told of nuptial bliss,
But what do you do,
A quarter to two,
With only a shrew to kiss?
So I repeat what first I said,
Where is the life that late I led?



Writer(s): Cole Porter


Alfred Drake - Greatest Hits
Album Greatest Hits
date of release
15-11-2011

1 High Society Calypso (From "High Society")
2 Make It Another Old-Fashioned, Please (From "Panama Hattie")
3 Well, Did You Evah (From High Society)
4 Use Your Imagination (From Out Of This World)
5 True Love (From High Society)
6 You Do Something To Me (From Fifty Million Frenchmen)
7 You've Got That Thing (From Fifty Million Frenchmen)
8 C'est Magnifique (From "Can Can")
9 Hot House Rose (From Miscellaneous Songs)
10 I've Still Got My Health (From Panama Hattie)
11 Were Thine That Speical Face (From Kiss Me, Kate)
12 Why Don't We Try Staying Home? (From Fifty Million Frenchmen)
13 All Of You (from Silk Stockings)
14 Dream Dancing (From "You'll Never Get Rich")
15 Let's Do It (Let's Fall In Love) (From Paris)
16 Where Is The Life That Late I Led? (From Kiss Me, Kate)
17 Two Little Babes In The Wood (From Greenwich Village Follies)
18 Let's Not Talk About Love (Let's Face It)
19 Let's Misbehave (From Paris)
20 Be A Clown, From: "The Pirate"
21 Now You Has Jazz (From High Society)
22 I've A Shooting Box In Scotland (From See America First)
23 It's All Right With Me (From Can-Can)
24 Allez-Vous En (From Can-Can)
25 I Love You, Samantha (From High Society)
26 So Near and Yet So Far (From "You'll Never Get Rich")
27 Too Darn Hot (From Kiss Me, Kate)
28 You're Sensational (From High Society)




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