BLUE AGAIN
From the Broadway Show "The Vanderbilt Revue" (1930)
(Dorothy Fields / Jimmy McHugh)


Lee Morse - 1931
Red Nichols & His Five Pennies (vocal: Dick Robertson) - 1931
Duke Ellington & His Cotton Club Orch. (vocal: Sid Garry) - 1931
Louis Armstrong & His Orch. - 1931
Glen Gray & The Casa Loma Orch. - 1935
Glenn Miller & The AAF Band - 1944
Alma Cogan - 1955
Harry James & His Orch. - 1955
Dorothy Fields - 1972
Barbara Leigh - 1995
The Manhattan Transfer - 2000






As recorded by LEE MORSE:

I have learned that love is not a picnic
Love can do an awful lot of stunts
Love is like the colic or the measles
Almost everybody gets it once

First we fight and argue for an hour
Then we kiss and sail the sky above
Just at present life is kind of sour
What is this thing called love

'Cause I'm blue again, blue again
And you know darn well that it's you again
'Cause you said last night we were through again
And now I'm blue again

I'm alone again, alone again
And I'm out around on my own again
'Cause my mockin' bird has flown again
And I'm alone again

Though I say I hate you
I love you more every day
Though I aggravate you
Oh, honest I'm dyin' to say

That it's new again, you again
And we'll meet today at two again
But tonight we'll fight and be through again
And I'll be blue again

Blue again, blue again
And you know darn well that it's you again
'Cause you said last night we were through again
And now I'm blue again

I'm alone again, alone again
I'm out around on my own again
'Cause my mockin' bird has flown again
And I'm alone again

Though I say I hate you
I love you more every day
Though I aggravate you
Honest I'm dyin' to say

That it's all new again, and it's you again
And we'll meet today at two again
But tonight we'll fight and be through again
And I'll be blue again


(Transcribed by Mel Priddle - January 2013)


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As recorded by ALMA COGAN:

(Blue again, blue again, blue again, blue again, blue again)
(Oh, but she's so blue again)

Blue again, blue again
And you know darn well that's you again
'Cause you said last night we were through again
And now I'm blue again

I'm alone again, alone again
And I'm out around on my own again
'Cause my mocking bird has flown again
And I'm alone again

Though I say I hate you
I love you more every day
Though I aggravate you
Honest I'm dying to say

That it's new again, you again
And we'll meet today at two again
And tonight we'll fight and be through again
And I'll be blue again

(Blue again, blue again, blue again, blue again, blue again)

(Instrumental Break)

I'm alone again, alone again
And I'm out around on my own again
'Cause my mocking bird has flown again
And I'm alone again

(Though I say I hate you)
I love you more every day
(Though I aggravate you)
Honest I'm dying to say

That it's new again, you again
And we'll meet today at two again
And tonight we'll fight and be through again
And I'll be blue again
But tonight we'll fight and be through again
And I'll be blue, blue, blue again


(Transcribed by Mel Priddle - December 2011)