Lyrics That's the Way It Happens / All At Once You Love Her / Some Enchanted Evening - Richard Rodgers , Oscar Hammerstein II

You're a girl from Chicago on the road with a show
Not a soul in New Haven you can say you know
You wish you were a mile or so from Michigan Lake
Home with your mother and a T-bone steak

Then along comes a fella with a smile like a kid
And he gets your attention with a timely bid
He says he knows a bistro where they give you a break
With French fried potatoes and a T-bone steak

You are shy and uncertain, but he pleads and you yield
And you don't have an inkling that you're signed and sealed
By merely telling someone you'd be glad to partake
Of French fried potatoes and a T-bone steak

That's the way it happens
That's the way it happens
That's the way it happened to me!

You're a guy from New Haven on the road with a show
There's a girl in the company that you hardly know
You watch her and you wonder if she'd like to partake
Of French fried potatoes and a T-bone steak

Then along comes a fella who is quicker than you
You sure great in the show
Oh, thanks
Wanna grab a bite to eat?
And he does what you thought that you would like to do
Gee, it's kinda late
I know a swell place
He takes her to a bistro where they give you a break
With French fried potatoes and a T-bone steak
Great steaks, and you'll love the band
I'd be glad to!

Now you see them together and you know in your heart
That you lost what you wanted from the very start
Because you didn't ask her if she'd like to partake
I guess I was hungrier than I thought
Of French fried potatoes and a T-bone steak

You start to light her cigarette
And all at once you love her
You've scarcely talked
You've scarcely met
But all at once you love her
You like her eyes, you tell her so
She thinks you're wise and clever
You kiss goodnight and then you know
You'll kiss goodnight forever
You wonder where your heart can go
And all at once you know

You start to light her cigarette
And all at once you love her
You've scarcely talked (You've scarcely talked)
You've scarcely met (You've scarcely met)
But all at once you love her
You like her eyes, you tell her so
She thinks you're wise and clever
You kiss goodnight (You kiss goodnight)
And then you know (And then you know)
You'll kiss goodnight forever
You wonder where your heart can go
And all at once (And all at once)
You know

A bell is no bell till you ring it
A song is no song till you sing it
And love in your heart wasn't put there to stay
Love isn't love till you give it away

Some enchanted evening,
You may see a stranger
You may see a stranger
Across a crowded room
And somehow you know
You know even then
That somewhere you'll see her again and again

Some enchanted evening
Someone may be laughing
You may hear her laughing across a crowded room
And night after night
As strange as it seems
The sound of her laughter will sing in your dreams

Who can explain it, who can tell you why?
Fools give you reasons, wise men never try
Some enchanted evening (Some enchanted evening)
When you find your true love (She will call you in a crowded room)
When you hear her call you across a crowded room
Then fly to her side and make her your own
Or all through your life you may dream all alone
Once you have found her, never let her go
Once you have found her, never let her go