Gershwin - LOVE IS HERE TO STAY

“LOVE IS HERE TO STAY”
From The Goldwyn Follies (film) (1938)
LYRICS BY IRA GERSHWIN
(Music by George Gershwin)

    (Verse)
  1  The more I read the papers (A) the less I comprehend (B)
  2  The world and all its capers (A) and how it all will end. (B)
  3  Nothing seems to be lasting, but that isn’t our affair; (C)
  4  We’ve got something permanent--I mean, in the way we care. (C)

    (Refrain)
  1  It’s very clear (A) our love is here to stay. (B)
  2  Not for a year (A) but ever and a day. (B)
  3  The radio and the telephone and the movies that we know (C)
  4  May just be passing fancies and in time may go. (C)
  5  But oh, my dear, (A) our love is here to stay.  (B)
  6  Together we’re (A) going a long, long way. (B)
  7  In time the Rockies may crumble, (D)
  8  Gibraltar may tumble (D) (they’re only made of clay), (B)
  9  But our love is here to stay. (B)