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It Might As Well Be Spring
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For the only film score that they wrote together--State Fair, in 1945--Rogers and Hammerstein had to come up with a song for the heroine, Margy (Jeanne Crain), who is about to go to the fair but has the blues for no apparent reason. Lyricist Hammerstein decided that her problem was spring fever. His problem was that state fairs are held in the fall, not in the spring. His solution: a lyric in which Margy sings that, although it's autumn, her feelings tell her it might as well be spring. Set to music in less than an hour by Rodgers, "It Might As Well Be Spring," won the Oscar for Best Film Song of 1945.
I am starry-eyed and vaguely discontented,
Like a night-in-gale without a song to sing.
Oh, why should I have spring fever
When it isn't even spring?
I keep wishing I were some where else,
Walking done a strange new street.
Hearing words that I have never heard
From a man I've yet to meet.
I'm as busy as spider spinning day-dreams;
I'm as giddy as a baby on a swing.
I haven't seen a crocus or a rosebud,
Or a robin on the wing,
But I feel so gay in a melancholy way
That it might as well be spring.
It might as well be spring?
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