Ev'ry show must have a song   Most ev'ryone agrees   For what else could the ingenue   and the juvenile reprise      And so I wrote a random note,   a harmony or two   And when it came to add the words   I tried describing you      A very precious love   Is what you are to me   A stairway to a star   A night in Shangril?of ecstasy      Lanterns of gold   Lanterns of blue   Twinkle in the shadows   While I dance with you   An echo in the wind   Across the summer lake   Is sayin' you should know   that lanterns lose their glow   and hearts can break      So hold me close my darling   then kiss me tenderly   And give your precious love   Your very precious love to me