Credits
PERFORMING ARTISTS
Original Broadway Cast of "Zorba"
Performer
Harold Hastings
Conductor
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
John Kander
Composer
Fred Ebb
Composer
PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
Dickie Jones
Producer
Lyrics
Soon we'll hear the crow
Whistle a low beckoning note
Then someone will turn
Face to the wall
Clutching her throat
Caw (caw)
I want her watch!
I want her shoes
I want her gown
I want the ribbons!
Caw (caw)
Soon we'll see the crow
Perch on the sill
Stare at the door
Then make up his wings
Shadows that spill
Over the floor
Crow come from the cloud
Black as the shroud
She's never worn
Crow cackle and cry
What doesn't die
(What doesn't die)
What doesn't die
(What doesn't die)
Never was born
Caw
Caw
Soon we'll see the crow
Circle and dive
Flutter and climb
Then someone in bed
Barely alive
Knows it's the time
(Caw) Look
(Caw) Look
Oh! Canavaro
How young I was
How beautiful
Like a dove
And you are beautiful still
My dove
And young
So young
My mother dressed me
In a white organdy gown
And she said
"Ladies and gentlemen
My beautiful daughter
It's her birthday
She's sixteen years old"
And my mother said
"You will dance through life
You will dance all through life"
My mother says
That little girls are made of sugar
Happy birthday
(Happy birthday) My mother says
My life would be a wide, wide ribbon
Happy birthday
(Happy birthday)
And all my tomorrows are waiting in a line
Shimmering, glimmering
Soon to be mine
My mother says
She looks at me
And she remembers
Happy birthday
(Happy birthday)
She envies me the love
I'm just about
To see
But she was yesterday
(She was yesterday)
And I'm tomorrow
(I'm tomorrow)
Happy birthday
(Happy birthday)
To me
Happy birthday
(Happy birthday)
Happy birthday
(Happy birthday)
And all my tomorrows
Are waiting in a line
Shimmering, glimmering
Soon to be mine
My mother says
She looks at me
And she remembers
Happy birthday!
(Happy birthday)
She envies me the love
I'm just about to see
But she was yesterday
(She was yesterday)
And I'm tomorrow
(I'm tomorrow)
Happy birthday
(Happy birthday)
Happy birthday
(Happy birthday)
Bye, Canavaro
Goodbye, Bubulina
Don't forget me
Written by: Fred Ebb, John Kander
