CORRECT LYRICS

Lyrics : Movies Were Movies (from Mack & Mabel)

But, it didn't run very long

And then in 1974 I had the great experience of musicalizing the lives of Mack Sennett and Mabel Normand, the king and queen of silent screen comedy. This show reunited me with Mike Stewart, and Gower Champion, and David Merrick, and gave me three wonderful stars to work with: Robert Preston, and Bernadette Peters, and Lisa Kirk

Here's a sampler of Mack & Mabel

(sung)
Movies were—

Sorry kids... when you know it's forevеr, it's very hard...

This isn't forever!

Moviеs were movies when you paid a dime to escape
Cheering the hero and hissing the man in the cape
Romance and action and thrills

Pardner there's gold in them hills
Movies were movies when during the titles you'd know

You'd get a happy ending

Dozens of blundering cops in a thundering chase
Getting a bang out of lemon meringue in the face
Bandits attacking a train

One little tramp with a cane

Movies were movies were movies when I ran the show