Play once more a sweet serenade

You only serenade when husbands are around.

Bringing his sweet serenade to her door

The band of children began to serenade us.

Mighty nice of 'em to serenade us like this.

And even that prettiest of all vanished customs, the serenade.

The generation of step away from evil and serenade it is over.

A man comes to serenade a lady, and what does he find?

A little piece of silver outside the chest to serenade the little piece of steel inside, eh?

at a serenade. What she minds was him makin' a clown of himself in her own front yard.

In music, a serenade (or sometimes serenata, from the Italian word) is a musical composition, and or performance, in someone's honor.