Got the Gate on the Golden Gate lyrics

Went for a walk on day alone

Down around the bay

I guess you could say that it was fate

How else could I have met my love

On the Golden Gate?

She strolled along the bridge, and she

Was the cutest pigeon, gee

Did you never palpitate?

Well, you’d have swooned to see her there

On the Golden Gate

I looked into her eyes

And foggy skies were clear

Just when I thought love was here

What a switch

Along came a Cadillac

It stopped and she got in back

Alas and alack, she had a date

I finally found the love I longed for too late

I have no gold and got the gate on the Golden Gate

I hung around to see if she would reappear

But no such luck and now it’s clear I’m a goner

Now every day I stroll along

Down around the bay

I guess I’ll simply chalk it up to fate

And that’s what happens to you when you don’t rate

I had no gold and got the gate on the Golden Gate

Writer(s): Mel Torme