Its first performance was in the film Calamity Jane by Doris Day. It received an Academy Award for Best Original Song. Doris Day also recorded the best-selling record of the song, which reached #1 on both the Billboard and Cash Box charts in 1954. A popular version by Slim Whitman also made #2.
once I had a secret love that lived within the heart of me all too soon my secret love became impatient to be free
so I told a friendly star the way that dreamers often do just how wonderful you are and why I'm so in love with you
now I shout it from the highest hill I even told you the golden dafodill at least my heart's an open door and my secret love's no secret anymore
now I shout it from the highest hill I even told you the golden dafodill at least my heart's an open door and my secret love's no secret my secret love's no secret