"Once Upon a Time" — Strouse and Adams' 1962 fairy tale.
Once upon a time
A girl with moonlight in her eyes
Put her hand in mine
And said she loved me so
But that was once upon a time
Very long ago
Once upon a hill
We sat beneath a willow tree
Counting all the stars and waiting for the dawn
But that was once upon a time
Now the tree is gone
How the breeze ruffled through her hair
How we always laughed as though tomorrow wasnt there
We were young and didnt have a care
Where did it go
Once upon a time
The world was sweeter than we knew
Everything was ours
How happy we were then
But somehow once upon a time
Never comes again
Once upon a time
Never comes again
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- Written by Charles Strouse and Lee Adams for the 1962 musical All American. The once-upon-a-time of a real memory — the fairy-tale framing applied to actual experience. Sinatra finding the mythological in the specific.