Tea For Two
Tea for Two was a "dummy lyric" or a temporary set of words put together to help the lyricist work out a song's metric form and rhyme scheme. "Tea for Two" may be a classic, but it still uses the dummy lyric Caesar dashed off hurriedly one night. The cheerful number was added to the 1924 musical No, No, Nanette
Words by Irving Caesar.
Music by Vincent Youmans.
Picture you upon my knee,
Just Tea For Two and two for tea,
Just me for you and you for me alone.
Nobody near us to see us or hear us,
No friends or relations on weekend vacations,
We won't have it know, dear, that we own a telephone, dear.
Day will break and you'll awake
And start to bake a sugar cake
For me to take for all the boys to see.
We will raise a family,
A boy for you, A girl for me,
Oh can't you see how happy we would be?
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