YOU CALL IT MADNESS (BUT I CALL IT LOVE)
Con Conrad / Russ Columbo / Paul Gregory / Gladys Dubois  1929

as recorded by Billy Eckstine

also recorded by -
Russ Columbo '29
Mildred Bailey '30's
Bert lown & his Biltmore Hotel Orchestra '30's
Ben Selvin & his orchestra '30's
The Nat "King" Cole Trio '45  '46
Diana Krall '95
Cy Coleman
Eddie Fisher
Jackie Gleason & his Orchestra
Kate Smith


At first the slight suggestion
That grew to haunt my mind,
'Twas that eternal question,
True love is hard to find!

And then the day I found you,
My love I had to share;
I built my dreams around you,
Somehow you made me care1

I can't forget the night I met you,
That's all I'm thinking of,
And now you call it madness,
But I call it love!

You made a promise to be faithful
By all the stars above,
And now you call it madness,
But I call it love.

My heart is beating,
It keeps on repeating
For you constantly!
You're all I'm needing,
And so I'm pleading,
Please come back to me!

You made a plaything out of romance,
What do you know of love?
That's why you call it madness,
But I call it love!



(Transcribed by Peter Akers - December 2012)