AFRAID TO DREAM (Connee Boswell)
Harry Revel (m) Mack Gordon (l)  1937

as recorded by 
Connee Boswell w Ben Pollack & his Orchestra  
August 23rd 1937 
Los Angeles

Also recorded by
Roy Fox & His Orchestra
V. Barry Gray
Recorded 2nd |October 1937

and

Deanna Durbin
Josephine Baker
Petula Clark
Martha Tilton/Benny Goodman Orchestra
Betty Van/Benny Goodman Orchestra.




Afraid to dream,
Afraid that you might not be there,
Afraid to dream,
Without you life would seem so bare!
With open arms I call to you,
I want you, dear;
Just as I reach for you,
Why do you disappear?

Afraid to dream
I'll see you there with someone new,
Afraid to find
Another one caressing you.
Although you promised me
That this could never be,
It's the thought of you
That makes me so afraid to dream.

Here we are,
Two silhouettes in the blue.
Here we are,
Bidding the stardust anew.
Soon you'll be lost in the glory of dreams,
Yes my lovely one, strange as it seems.

I'm afraid to dream,
Afraid you won't be there,
Afraid to dream,
Without you life would seem so bare!
With open arms I call to you,
I want you, dear;
Just as I reach for you,
Why do you disappear?

Afraid to dream
I'll see you there with someone new,
Afraid to find
Another one caressing you.
Although you promised me
That this could never be,
It's the thought of you
That makes me afraid to dream.




(Transcribed by Peter Akers - January 2012)	



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AFRAID TO DREAM

as recorded by
Benny Goodman 


Afraid to dream, 
afraid that you may not be there
Afraid to dream, 
without you it would seem so bare
With open arms I call to you, 
I want you, dear
Just as I reach for you, 
why do you disappear?

Afraid to dream; 
I'll see you there with someone new
Afraid to find another one caressing you
Although you promised me that this could never be
It's the thought of losing you 
that makes me so afraid to dream