"I Could Write a Book" — Rodgers and Hart's literary love from Pal Joey.
Writer(s): rodgers/hart
If they asked me, I could write a book;
About the way you walk, and whisper;
And look.
I could write a preface;
On how we met;
That the world will never forget.
And the simple;
Secret of the plot;
Is just to tell them;
That I love you, alot.
Then the world discovers;
As my book ends;
How to make two lovers of friends
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- From Pal Joey (1940). The narrator — Joey Evans, a small-time hustler — unexpectedly sincere: "I could write a preface on how we met, so the world would never forget." Hart making the cynical character reveal genuine feeling through the grandiosity of literary ambition.