If He Walked into My Life - Eydie Gorme, Steve Lawrence

From the 1966 Broadway play «Mame»

Where’s that boy with the bugle?

My little love was always my big romance;

Where’s that boy with the bugle?

And why did I ever buy him those damn long pants?

Did he need a stronger hand?

Did he need a lighter touch?

Was I soft or was I tough?

Did I give enough?

Did I give too much?

At the moment that he needed me,

Did I ever turn away?

Would I be there when he called,

If he walked into my life today.

Were his days a little dull?

Were his nights a little wild?

Did I overstate my plan?

Did I stress the man?

And forget the child.

And there must have been a million things.

That my heart forgot to say.

Would I think of one or two,

If he walked into my life today.

Should I blame the times I pampered him,

Or blame the times I bossed him;

What a shame!

I never really found the boy,

Before I lost him.

Were the years a little fast?

Was his world a little free?

Was there too much of a crowd?

All too lush and loud and not enough for me.

Though I’ll ask myself my whole life long,

What went wrong along the way;

Would I make the same mistakes

If he walked into my life today?

If that boy with the bugle,

Walked into my life today.