- LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, EDDIE ALBERT.
(AUDIENCE APPLAUDS)
♪♪♪
- WELL, YOU KNOW, AS YOU DRAW TOWARD THE END OF THE YEAR
SOMETIMES YOU GET TO REMEMBERING
I WAS RECALLING WHEN I FIRST CAME TO NEW YORK, TO BE AN ACTOR
I LEFT MINNESOTA, AND I
AND I GOT INTO A PLAY CALLED "BROTHER RAT"
SOME OF YOU MAY REMEMBER THAT.
THANK YOU. WOW. (AUDIENCE APPLAUDS)
I'M SURPRISED YOU REMEMBER, THAT'S GOTTA BE WHAT
THAT'S GOTTA BE EIGHT, NINE YEARS AGO NOW
AT ANY RATE, I HAD AN IDOL AT THAT TIME, WALTER HOUSTON
AND HE WAS PLAYING IN A SHOW CALLED
"KNICKERBOCKER HOLIDAY"
AND I USED TO SNEAK ACROSS TO SEE HIM
I COULD LEARN SOMETHING, YOU KNOW, FROM HIM
AND HE PLAYED THE PART OF THIS AGING, TOUGH DICTATOR
FROM EARLY DUTCH, NEW YORK, PETER STUYVESANT
AND IN THE SHOW, HE FELL IN LOVE WITH A VERY YOUNG GIRL
AND HE ASKED HER TO MARRY HIM
WELL, SHE WAS FOND OF HIM, BUT SHE WAS ALSO FOND
OF A YOUNG FELLOW HER OWN AGE
SO SHE STALLED, SHE SAID
"WELL, COULDN'T WE WAIT A LITTLE WHILE?"
AND HE SAID, "HOW LONG DID YOU HAVE IN MIND WAITING?"
AND SHE SAID, "OH, FIVE YEARS."
AND HE LOOKED AT HER, HE SAID
"FIVE YEARS. AT MY AGE?"
HE SAID, "WHEN I WAS A YOUNG MAN, COURTING THE GIRLS
I PLAYED ME, A WAITING GAME
IF A GIRL REFUSED ME WITH TOSSING CURLS
I'D LET THE OLD EARTH TAKE A COUPLE OF WHIRLS
WHILE I APPLIED HER WITH TEARS INSTEAD OF PEARLS
AND AS TIME WENT ALONG, SHE CAME MY WAY
AS TIME WENT ALONG
(LIGHT ORCHESTRA MUSIC)
♪ SHE CAME ♪
♪ BUT IT'S A LONG, LONG TIME ♪
♪ FROM MAY TO DECEMBER ♪
♪ AND THE DAYS GROW SHORT ♪
♪ WHEN YOU REACH SEPTEMBER ♪
♪ AND THE AUTUMN WEATHER ♪
♪ TURNS THE LEAVES TO FLAME ♪
♪ I HAVEN'T GOT TIME ♪
♪ FOR THE WAITING GAME ♪
♪ BUT THE DAYS TURN TO GOLD ♪
♪ AS THEY GROW FEW ♪
♪ SEPTEMBER ♪
♪ NOVEMBER ♪
♪ AND THESE FEW GOLDEN DAYS ♪
♪ I'D SPEND WITH YOU ♪
♪ THESE PRECIOUS DAYS ♪
♪ I'D SPEND WITH YOU ♪
♪ ALL THE YEARS SIMMER DOWN ♪
♪ TO A VINTAGE BREW ♪
♪ SEPTEMBER ♪
♪ NOVEMBER ♪
♪ AND THESE FEW VINTAGE YEARS ♪
♪ I'D SPEND WITH YOU ♪
♪ THESE VINTAGE YEARS ♪
♪ I'D SPEND ♪
♪ WITH YOU ♪
(AUDIENCE APPLAUDS)