Right from the start let's get one thing straight
When it comes to the heart you can't legislate
Funny the things a fellow will remember sometimes
Like the scene from the movie Citizen Kane
One short moment with me remains
Funny the things a fellow will remember sometimes
When Bernstein says now you take me
Stuck in my mind one memory
I was crossing over to Jersey on the ferry
As we pulled out another ferry pulled in
A second between them was all it could have been
And on it was a girl waiting to get off
A white dress is what she had on
One second later she was gone
She never saw me at all,she carried a white parasol
That was in eighteen ninety six
And I bet a month hasn't gone by since
That I haven't thought of that girl on the Jersey ferry
Now it's nineteen forty one
Nigh half a century been and gone
And I still remember that girl with the white dress on
A fleeting glimpse of chances missed
Destiny or fates cruel twist
She'd never even know that I exist,
How about that
Time is the ticket and the years the toll
Did I mention she carried a white parasol
Funny the things a fellow will remember sometimes