HOW AM I TO KNOW?

(Jack King (m) / Dorothy Parker (l) 1929)

As sung by Billie Holiday with Eddie Heywood and his Orchestra 1944

Also sung by:

Gene Austin 1929
Frank Sinatra with Tommy Dorsey
Rosemary Clooney
Ava Gardner
Bing Crosby
Sarah Vaughan
Shirley Horn


Oh, how am I to know?
If it's really love
That's found it's way here.

Oh, how am I to know?
Will it linger on
And leave me then?

I dare not guess
At this strange happiness.

But oh, how am I to know?
Can it be that love
Has come to stay here?


NOTES:

Billie Holiday was an American jazz singer/songwriter 
and was known for her unique manner of manipulating 
phrasing and tempo in her work.

She was nicknamed ‘Lady Day’ by her 
friends and musical associates.

She worked with the some of the big band jazz greats 
like Duke Ellington, Teddy Wilson, Count Basie, 
Benny Goodman and Artie Shaw and was 
competition for Ella Fitzgerald.


(Transcribed by David Story - January 2014)