OKLAHOMA - PEOPLE WILL SAY WE'RE IN LOVE

PEOPLE WILL SAY WE'RE IN LOVE

OKLAHOMA

SONGWRITERS: OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN & RICHARD ROGERS

COUNTRY: U.S.A.

ALBUM: OKLAHOMA

LABEL: CAPITOL

GENRE: SOUNDTRACK

YEAR: 1998

"People Will Say We're In Love" is a show tune from the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Oklahoma! (1943). In the original Broadway production, the song was introduced by Alfred Drake and Joan Roberts.

The other characters think, correctly, that Laurey (Joan Roberts) and Curly (Alfred Drake) are in love. In this song they warn each other not to behaver indiscreetly, lest people misinterpret their intentions. Neither wants to admit to the other - or themselves - his or her true feelings. Towards the end of the muscial the caracters reprise the number after becoming engaged, saying "Let People Say we're in Love".

Oklahoma! is a 1955 musical film based on the 1943 stage musical Oklahoma!, written by composer Richard Rodgers, and lyricist/librettist Oscar Hammerstein II and starring Gordon MacRae, Shirley Jones (in her film debut), Rod Steiger, Charlotte Greenwood, Gloria Grahame, Gene Nelson, James Whitmore and Eddie Albert. The production was the only musical directed by Fred Zinnemann. Oklahoma! was the first feature film photographed in the Todd-AO 70 mm widescreen process (and, was simultaneously filmed in CinemaScope 35mm).

The film received a rave review from The New York Times, and was voted a "New York Times Critics Pick". In 2007, Oklahoma! was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".

Laurey:

Why do they think up stories that link my name with yours?

Curly:

Why do the neighbors gossip all day behind their doors?

Laurey:

I know a way to prove what they say is quite untrue

Here is the gist, a practical list of "don'ts" for you.

Don't throw bouquets at me

Don't please my folks to much

Don't laugh at my jokes too much.

People will say we're in love.

Curly:

Who laugh at your jokes?

Laurey:

Don't sigh and gaze at me.

Your sighs are so like mine.

Your eyes mustn't glow like mine

People will say we're in love!

Don't start collecting things

(Like what?)

Give me my rose and my glove.

Sweetheart, they're suspecting things

People will say we're in love.

Curly:

Some people claim that you are to blame as much as I

Why do you take the trouble to bake my fav'rite pie?

Grantin' your wish I carved our initials on that tree,

Just keep a slice of all the advice you give so free.

Don't praise my charm too much

Don't look so vain with me

Don't stand in the rain with me

People will say we're in love.

Don't take my arm to much

Don't keep your hand in mine

Your hand feels so grand in mine

People will say we're in love!

Don't dance all night with me 'till the stars fade from above

They'll see it's alright with me

People will say we're in love!