(F)We were both young when I first saw you.

I (Bb)close my eyes and the flash back starts.

I’m stand in’ (Dm)there

on a bal co ny in (Bb)sum mer air.

(F)See the lights, see the par ty, the ball gowns.

(Bb)See you make your way through the crowd and say hel (Dm)lo.

Lit tle did (C)I know

that (Bb)you were Ro me o.

You were (C)throw ing peb bles, and my (Dm)dad dy said, “Stay a way from (F)Ju li et.” And I was (Bb)cry in’ on the stair case, (C)beg gin’ you, “Please don’t go.”

And I said, (F)“Ro me o, take me some where we can be a lone.

(C)I’ll be wait ing.

All there’s left to do is run.

(Dm)You’ll be the prince and I’ll be the prin cess.

(Bb)It’s a love sto ry.

(C)Ba by, just say yes.” (F)“Ro me o, save me.

They’re try’n’ to tell me how to feel.

This love is dif fi cult, but it’s real.

(Dm)Don’t be a fraid.

We’ll make it out of this mess.

(Bb)It’s a love sto ry.

(C)Ba by, just say

yes.”