PAT BOONE - BEGIN THE BEGUIN

BEGIN THE BEGUIN

PAT BOONE

AUTORIA: COLE PORTER

COUNTRY: U.S.A.

ALBUM: HOWDY! BY PAT BOONE/LP

LABEL: DOT RECORDS

GENRE: RUMBA LENTA

ANO: 1956

"Begin the Beguine" is a popular song written by Cole Porter. Porter composed the song between Kalabahi, Indonesia, and Fiji during a 1935 Pacific cruise aboard Cunard's ocean liner Franconia. In October 1935, it was introduced by June Knight in the Broadway musical Jubilee, produced at the Imperial Theatre in New York City.

Howdy! is the 1957 debut studio album by Pat Boone. It followed a previous self-titled album compilation of previously released singles.

A Beguine was originally a Christian lay woman of the 13th or 14th century living in a religious community without formal vows, but in the creole of the Caribbean, especially in Martinique and Guadeloupe, the term came to mean "white woman", and then to be applied to a style of music and dance, and in particular a slow, close couples' dance. This combination of French ballroom dance and Latin folk dance became popular in Paris and spread further abroad in the 1940s, largely due to the influence of the Porter song.

When they begin the beguine,

It brings back the sound of music so tender,

It brings back the night of tropical splendor,

It brings back a memory evergreen!

I’m with you once more under the stars,

And down by the shore an orchestra’s playing.

Even the palms seem to be swaying

When they begin the beguine!

To live it again is past all endeavor,

Except when that tune clutches my heart,

And there we are swearing to love forever,

And promising never, never to part!

What moments divine, what raptures serene,

Till clouds came along to disperse the joys we had tasted...

And now, when I hear people curse the chance that was wasted,

I know but too well what they mean!

So, don’t let them begin the beguine,

Let the love that was once a fire remain an ember ...

Let it sleep like the dead desire I only remember,

When they begin the beguine!

Oh yes, let them begin the beguine, make them play!

Till the stars that were there before return above you,

Till you whisper to me once more, “Darling, I love you!”

And we suddenly know, what heaven we’re in,

When they begin the beguine!

When they begin... the beguine!