[Lyric] When? (Tony Perkins & Charmian Carr)

[CHARLES SNELL]
Ella, look at me this way
Ella, Ella, concentrate hard
Ella, hear me and turn before I deal another card

[ELLA]
No, don't look at me
Don't look up, Charles
If you look at me
Then I will look at you happily and
They will see how much I like you

[CHARLES SNELL]
When will I ever see you, Ella?
When will we meet?
When will we speak?
When will I once again touch your cheek?
When?

[ELLA]
When will we meet?
I long to know, Charles
How do you dance?
How do you smoke?
What is a party?
What is a joke?
But when?
[CHARLES SNELL]
"I pass"
I pass
I pass the hours planning things to teach you

[ELLA]
I pass the hours planning ways to reach you

[CHARLES SNELL AND ELLA]
When? When? When?

[CHARLES SNELL]
"One heart"
One heart
One heart is beating wildly
Can she hear it?

[ELLA]
One heart is beating wildly
Charles is near it
When?

[CHARLES SNELL]
When will we be alone together?

[CHARLES SNELL, ELLA]
When can we meet? (When can we speak?)
When will we be alone together? (When can I once again touch your cheek?)
[CHARLES SNELL AND ELLA]
When can we meet? When can we speak?
When can I once again touch your cheek?
When?

[CHARLES SNELL]
Ella, gay as a tarantella
Pure as larks singing a cappella
Let my poem be your umbrella
Ella, poets who suffer pain
Should fall in love with girls named Jane
Not Ella

[ELLA]
When will we meet?
I long to know
What songs do you like?
Where are you from?
Have you been married?
Why did you come?
When?

[CHARLES SNELL]
When, Ella, when?
I long to teach
Your eyes how to read
Hands how to write
Lips how to spell
But night after night
When?
I see you scouring and mending
Pale and dreamy
Bending and pretending
Not to see me
When? When? When?

[ELLA]
I see you smiling at me in "notions"
While I'm cooking
Cover your emotions
Charles, they're looking
When?

[CHARLES SNELL]
When will we ever be together?

[CHARLES SNELL, ELLA]
When is the time? Where is the place? (When will we ever be together?)
When can I once again touch your face? (When is the time? Where is the place)

[CHARLES SNELL AND ELLA]
When can I once again touch your face?
When? When? When? When? When?

[ELLA]
When will we meet?
I long to know
What songs do you like?
Where are you from?

Charles, am I ugly?
Charles, am I dumb?
Charles, do you like me?
Charles, could you love me?
Charles

[CHARLES SNELL]
Harkens:
Absent, the daylight darkens

Ella, what kind of coward am I?
This I will not allow
Ella, what if they do their worst?
I'll see you first
We'll be together

Now, Ella, now, girl
I shall show
Your hands how to touch
Eyes how to glow
Lips how to kiss
I've so much to show
Then you will blossom
Then you will grow and
Then! Then! Then!