Dearest Esmeralda Lyrics - John Denver

This song appears on four albums, and was first released on the I Want To Live album, and has also been released on the Changes, Reflections: Songs of Love and Life and The Country Roads Collection albums. 

Dearest Esmeralda, in another age 

Antiques would be modern, we would be the rage 

Silk would be in fashion, we would dress in lace 

Love would be the passion and the saving grace 

I slept one rainy night with you in Paris 

Made up for a thousand wasted years 

Dearest Esmeralda, you are magic 

I close my eyes and you make love appear 

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Dancing in the shimmer of a crystal chandelier 

Shadows singin' so low only we could hear 

Moving to the glimmer, shaking to the storm 

Outside it was raging, but inside it was warm 

We said goodnight in the candlelight and thunder 

Now I wake and find you're never there 

I'm becoming old enough to wonder 

Happy that I'm still too young to care 

Masterpieces crumble, empires tumble down 

Refugees and fantasies go underground 

Romance lasts forever, love don't fade away 

They may take our future, but they don't stop yesterday 

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'Cause somewhere in the cloudy skies of Paris 

we were part of some artist's design 

Dearest Esmeralda, you are magic 

In the gray around me how you shine 

Oh oh, how you shine 

Words and music by Bill Danoff