AS LONG AS I LIVE
From the Show "Cotton Club Parade" (1933)
(Ted Koehler / Harold Arlen)

Rosemary Clooney

Also recorded by :
Harold Arlen; Pearl Bailey; Chris Barber; Count Basie; 
Charlie Byrd; Johnny Cash; June Christy; Eddie Duchin; 
Billy Eckstine;  Duke Ellington; Ella Fitzgerald; 
Benny Goodman; Emmylou Harris; Woody Herman; Earl Hines; 
Lena Horne; Stan Kenton; Diana Krall; Gene Krupa; 
Kay Kaiser & his Orch.; Peggy Lee; Jerry Lee Lewis; 
Carmen McRae; Anita O'Day; Dolly Parton; Oscar Peterson; 
Gene Pitney; Tex Ritter; Neil Sedaka; George Shearing; 
Hank Snow; Sylvia Syms; Jack Teagarden; Elisabeth Welch; 
Jackie Wilson ..... and many more.


Maybe I can't live to love you as long as I want to.
Life isn't long enough baby, but I can love you as long as I live. 

Maybe I can't give you diamonds and things like I want to,
But I can promise you, baby, I'm gonna want to as long as I live. 

I never cared, but now I'm scared, I won't live long enough.
That's why I wear my rubbers when it rains and eat an apple every 
day then see the doctor anyway. 

What if I can't live to love you as long as I want to.
Long as I promise you, baby, I'm gonna love you as long I live. 

I'll even wear long underwear, when winter breezes blow
I'm gonna take good care of me because, a sneeze or two might mean the flu,
And that would never never do
What if I can't live to love you as long as I want to.
Long as I promise you, baby, I'm gonna love you as long I live.