If ever I would leave you it wouldn’t be in summer.
Seeing you in summer I never would go.
Your hair streaked with sunlight, your lips red as flame,
Your face with a luster that puts gold to shame!
But if I’d ever leave you, it couldn’t be in autumn.
How I’d leave in autumn I never would know.
I’ve seen how you sparkle when fall nips the air.
I know you in autumn and I must be there.
And could I leave you running merrily through the snow?
Or on a wintry evening when you catch the fire’s glow?
If ever I would leave you, how could it be in springtime,
Knowing how in spring I’m bewitched by you so?
Oh, no! not in springtime, summer, winter or fall!
No, never could I leave you at all!
1967 – Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe – Performed by Gene Merlino – From the motion picture Camelot –
Album: Camelot (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)