BEST THING FOR YOU (WOULD BE ME), THE
>From the Broadway Musical "Call Me Madam" (1950)
(Irving Berlin)


Ethel Merman & Paul Lukas (Broadway Production) - 1950
Perry Como - 1950
Doris Day - 1950
Ethel Merman - 1950
Dinah Shore - 1950
Margaret Whiting - 1950
Bing Crosby - 1950
Ethel Merman & George Sanders (Film Soundtrack) - 1953
Jackie Cain & Roy Kral - 1956
June Christy - 1957
Nat King Cole - 1958
Eddie Fisher - 1958
Judy Lynn & Larry Douglas - 1965
Rosemary Clooney - 1984
Diana Krall - 1999



Please let me say from the start
I don't pretend to be smart
I just suggest what I think best
Having your interest at heart

I only want what's the best thing for you
And the best thing for you would be me
I've been convinced after thinking it through
That the best thing for you would be me

Every day to myself I say
Point the way, what will it be
I ask myself what's the best thing for you
And myself and I seem to agree
That the best thing for you would be me

(Instrumental Break)

Every day to myself I say
Point the way, what will it be
I ask myself what's the best thing for you
And myself and I seem to agree
That the best thing for you would be me



(Transcribed by Mel Priddle - March 2017)