Cinderella WHEN YOU'RE DRIVING THROUGH THE MOONLIGHT #229

Songs from CINDERELLA ON BROADWAY by Richard Rodgers + Oscar Hammerstein II (Williamson Music Piano Arrangement 2013) ELLA: When you're driving through the moonlight on the highway, When you're driving through the moonlight to the dance; You are breathless with a wild anticipation Of adventure and excitement and romance. Then at last you see the towers of the palace Silhouetted on the sky above the park, And below them is a row of lighted windows Like a lovely diamond necklace in the dark. CHARLOTTE: It looks that way, GABRIELLE: The way you say. MADAME: She talks as if she knows. ELLA: I do not know these things are so. I only just suppose... I suppose that when you come into the ballroom, And the room itself is floating in the air, If you're suddenly confronted by His Highness, You are frozen like a statue on the stair. You're afraid he'll hear the way your heart is beating. And you know you mustn't make the first advance. You are seriously thinking of retreating; Then you seem to hear him asking you to dance. You make a bow, A timid bow, And shyly answer, "Yes." MADAME: How would you know that this is so? ELLA: I do no more than guess. GABRIELLE & CHARLOTTE: You can guess 'til you're blue in the face but you can't even picture such a man He is more than a prince... He's an ace! ELLA / (GABRIELLE & CHARLOTTE): But sisters, I really think I can... I think that I can picture such a man... (He is tall...) And straight as a lance! (And his hair...) Is dark and wavy. (His eyes...) Can melt you with a glance! He can turn a girl to gravy!