"At Long Last Love" — Cole Porter's extended romantic questionnaire.
Writer(s): porter
Is it an earthquake or simply a shock?
Is it the good turtle soup or merely the mock?
Is it a cocktail, this feeling of joy?
Or is what I feel the real mccoy?
Is it for all time or simply a lark?
Is it granada I see or only asbury park?
Is it a fancy not worth thinking of?
Or is it at long last love?
Is it an earthquake, or simply a shock?
Is it the good turtle soup, or is it merely the mock?
Is it a cocktail, this feeling of joy?
Or is what I feel the real mccoy?
Is it for all time or simply a lark?
Is it granada I see or only asbury park?
Is it a fancy, not worth thinking of?
Or is it at long long long last love?
Знаете ли вы, что...
- From You Never Know (1938). Porter's catalogue of distinctions — is it an earthquake or simply a shock? a cocktail or merely a mock? — building the question of whether this is finally the real thing. The uncertainty is the point.