When a zither starts to play   You'll remember yesterday   In its haunting strain   Vienna lives again      Free and bright and gay   In your mind a sudden gleam   Of a half forgotten dream   Seems to glimmer when you hear   The Third Man Theme      Once again there comes to mind   Someone that you left behind   Love that somehow didn't last   In that happy city of the past      Does she still recall the dream   That rapture so supreme   When first she heard the haunting   Third Man Theme      Carnivals and carousels   And ferris wheels and parasols   The Danube nights   The dancing lights again will shine   The zither's sweet refrain   Keeps swirling in your brain      Like new May wine   Strauss waltzes, candle-glow   And the laughter of long ago   Fill the magic chords   and make it seem like today      You never knew that you could be   Enchanted by a melody   The years will never drive it out   You don't know why      It's something you can't live without   You hear it in the twilight hush   And in the morning traffic rush      A song that's always new   In your heart a part of you   Oh, shines so brightly when you hear   The Third Man Theme      When a zither starts to play   You'll remember yesterday   In its haunting strain   Vienna lives again      Free and bright and gay   In your mind a sudden gleam   Of a well remembered dream   Seems to glimmer when you hear   The Third Man Theme      Once again there comes to mind   Someone that you left behind   Love that somehow didn't last   In that happy city of the past      Does she still recall the dream   That rapture so supreme   When first she heard the haunting   Third man theme      Carnivals and carousels   And ferris wheels and parasols   The Danube nights   The dancing lights again will shine      The zither's sweet refrain   Keeps swirling in your brain   Like new May wine      Strauss waltzes, candle glow   And the laughter of long ago   Fill the magic chords   And make it seem like today      You never knew that you could be   Enchanted by a melody   The years will never drive it out   You don't know why      It's something you can't live without   You hear it in the twilight hush   And in the morning traffic rush      A song that's always new   In your heart a part of you   Oh, shines so brightly when you hear   The Third Man Theme