A TIME FOR US

(Love Theme from Romeo and Juliet)

Franco Zeffireli's poetic filming of Romeo and Juliet in 1968
produced a love song that seemed to hark back to Elizabethan,
or even earlier, times. It was sung at the candlelit ball when Romeo
first caught sight of Juliet.
Words by: Larry Kusik and
Eddie Snyder

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Music by: Nino Rota

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Slowly, with expression

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A Time For

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OO O O

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Us, some day there'll be when chains are torn By cour age

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born of a love that's free; A time when dreams so long de

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nied can flour ish, As we un veil the

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love we now must hide. A Time For Us at

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last to see A life worth while for

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O OOO O O OO

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(No chord)

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you and me. love through tears and

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thorns we will en dure as we pass sure ly through ev 'ry

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strom A Time For Us, some day there'll be a

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new world; A world of shin ing hope for you and

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me.

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