The Volga Finns (sometimes referred to as Eastern Finns ) are a historical group of indigenous peoples of Russia whose descendants include the Mari people, the Erzya and the Moksha Mordvins, as well as extinct Merya, Muromian and Meshchera people. The Permians are sometimes also grouped as Volga Finns.
The modern representatives of Volga Finns live in the basins of the Sura and Moksha Rivers, as well as (in smaller numbers) in the interfluve between the Volga and the Belaya Rivers. The Mari language has two dialects, the Meadow Mari and the Hill Mari.
Traditionally the Mari and the Mordvinic languages (Erzya and Moksha) were forming a Volga–Finnic or Volgaic group within the Finno-Permic branch of the Uralic language family, suggested by linguists like Robert Austerlitz (1968), Aurélien Sauvageot & Karl Heinrich Menges (1973), Harald Haarmann (1974) and Charles Frederick Voegelin & Florence Marie Voegelin (1977), and rejected by others like Björn Collinder (1965) and Robert Thomas Harms (1974). This grouping has also been questioned by Salminen (2002), who suggests it may be simply a geographic, not a phylogenetic, group. Since 2009 the 16th edition of Ethnologue: Languages of the World has adopted a classification grouping Mari and Mordvin languages as separate brances of the Uralic language family.
My romance doesn’t have to have a moon in the sky
My romance doesn’t need a blue lagoon standing by
No month of may, no twinkling stars
No hide away, no softly guitars
My romance doesn’t need a castle rising in spain
Nor a dance to a constantly surprising refrain
Wide awake I can make my most fantastic dreams come true
My romance doesn’t need a thing but you
My romance doesn’t need a thing but you
My romance doesn't have
To have a moon in the sky
My romance doesn't need
A blue lagoon standing by
No month of May
No twinkling stars
No hide away
No soft guitars
My romance doesn't need
A castle rising in Spain
Nor a dance to a constantly
Surprising refrain
Wide awake
I can make my most
Fantastic dreams come true
My romance doesn't need
A thing but you
My romance doesn't have
To have a moon in the sky
My romance doesn't need
A blue lagoon standing by
No month of May
No twinkling stars
No hide away
No soft guitars
My romance doesn't need
A castle rising in Spain
Nor a dance to a constantly
Surprising refrain
Wide awake
I can make my most
Fantastic dreams come true
My romance doesn't need
(Richard Rodgers/Lorentz Hart)
My romance doesn't have
To have a moon in the sky
My romance doesn't need
A blue lagoon standing by
No month of May
No twinkling stars
No hide away
No soft guitars
My romance doesn't need
A castle rising in Spain
Nor a dance to a constantly
Surprising refrain
Wide awake
I can make my most
Fantastic dreams come true
My romance doesn't need
A thing but youMy romance doesn't have
To have a moon in the sky
My romance doesn't need
A blue lagoon standing by
No month of May
No twinkling stars
No hide away
No soft guitars
My romance doesn't need
A castle rising in Spain
Nor a dance to a constantly
Surprising refrain
Wide awake
I can make my most
Fantastic dreams come true
My romance doesn't need
A thing but you
There sha was a vision of beauty
Darky as the midnight sky
When she turned and looked at me
I was frozen by the look in her eyes
It was love at first sight
So we dance thru the night
I'll never be the same
Was it too good to be true
Loving me loving you
Or just another beautiful name
A beautiful name
Romancia, Romancia, oh
Romancia, Romancia, oh
Day and night, my heart's on fire
Longing for you
I remember so well,
Like boy meeting girl
On a secret rendezvous
It was a love at first sight
As we dance thru the night
And I'll never be the same
Cause when the walls were closing in
You were there like a friend
Whenever I called your name
I called your name
Romancia, Romancia, oh
Romancia, Romancia, oh
Romancia, you are my love
Romancia, girl of my dream
Romancia, you light up my life
Romancia, you are my world
Romancia-this summer I'll never forget
Romancia-I found love & happiness
Romancia-write her name in the book of love
Oh Romancia
Romancia-this summer I'll never forget
(I'll never forget)
Romancia-I found love and happiness
(first time we met)
Romancia-write her name in the book of love
(girl of my dream)
I never will forget Romancia
My romance doesn't have to have a moon in the sky
My romance doesn't need a blue lagoon standing by
No month of May, no twinkling stars
No hide away, no soft guitars
My romance doesn't need a castle rising in Spain
Or a dance to a constantly surprising refrain
Wide awake I can make my most fantastic dreams come true
My romance doesn't need one thing, but you
My romance doesn't have to have a moon in the sky
My romance doesn't need a blue lagoon standing by
No month of may, no twinkling stars
No hide away, no softly guitars
My romance doesn't need a castle rising in Spain
Nor a dance to a constantly surprising refrain
Wide awake I can make my most fantastic dreams come true
My romance doesn't need a thing but you
My romance doesn't need a thing but you
My romance, doesn't need to have a moon in the sky
My romance, doesn't need a blue lagoon standing by
No month of May, no twinkling stars
No hideaway, no soft guitar
My romance doesn't need a castle rising in Spain
Or a dance to a constantly surprising refrain
All at once I can make my most fantastic dreams come true
My romance, doesn't need a thing but you
My romance doesn't need a castle rising in Spain
Or a dance to a constantly surprising refrain
And wide awake, I can make my most fantastic dreams come
true
My romance doesn't have to have a moon in the sky
My romance doesn't need a blue lagoon standing by
No month of may, no twinkling stars
No hide away, no softly guitars
My romance doesn't need a castle rising in Spain
Nor a dance to a constantly surprising refrain
Wide awake I can make my most fantastic dreams come true
My romance doesn't need a thing but you
Look at the way the flowers bloom for You
They want to show You their beauty Lord
Running waters dance, You and I romance
Chorus:
Unto You be all the glory.
Unto You be all the glory (repeat)
Bridge:
The angels dance around You
The earth it sings about You
Open up the heavens Lord
Let Your Kingdom come to earth
my praises all surround you
my soul can't dance without you
open up the heavens Lord
I won’t kiss your hand, Madam,
Crazy for you though I am.
I’ll never woo you on bended knee,
No Madam, not me.
We don’t need that flowery fuss,
No sir, Madam, not for us
My romance
Doesn’t have to have a moon
In the sky
My romance
Doesn’t need a blue lagoon
Standing by;
No month of May,
No twinkling stars,
No hide away,
No soft guitars.
My romance
Doesn’t need a castle
Rising in Spain,
Nor a dance
To a constantly surprising refrain.
Wide awake
I can make my most fantasizing dreams come true.
Look at the way the flowers bloom for you,
They want to show you their beauty, Lord
Running waters dance,
You and I romance
Chorus
Unto You, be all the glory (x2)
Bridge
Angels dance around You
The earth it sings about You
Open up the heavens, Lord,
Let your kingdom come to earth
My praises all surround You
My soul can't dance without You
Open up the heavens Lord
My romance doesn't have to have a moon in the sky
My romance doesn't need a blue lagoon standing by
No month of May
No shining stars
No hideaway
No soft guitar
My romance doesn't need a castle rising in Spain
Nor a dance to a constantly surprising refrain
Wide awake I can make my most fantastic dreams come true
'Cause my romance doesn't need a thing but you
Wide awake I can make my most fantastic dreams come true
MY ROMANCE - James Taylor
From the album That's Why I'm Here, © 1985
By Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, © 1935.
My romance doesn't need to have a moon in the sky
My romance doesn't need a blue lagoon standing by
No month of May
No shining star
No hideaway
No soft guitar
My romance doesn't need a castle rising in Spain
Nor a dance to a constantly surprising refrain
Wide awake, I can make my most fantastic dreams come true
My romance doesn't have to have a moon in the sky
My romance doesn't need a blue lagoon standing by
No month of May, no twinkling stars
No hideaway, no soft guitars
My romance doesn't need a castle rising in Spain
Nor a dance to a constantly surprising refrain
Wide awake I can make my most fantastic dreams come true
My romance doesn't need a thing but you
My romance doesn't need a castle rising in Spain
Nor a dance to a constantly surprising refrain
Wide awake, wide awake I can make my most fantastic
dreams come true