BLUE BECAUSE OF YOU
Charles Carpenter / Louis M Dunlap / Wilson

as rec by Thomas "Fats" Waller & his Rhythm 
June 24th 1935 Camden New Jersey


Oh, don't make a fat man blue!
No baby, come here!

Blue because of you,
Broken hearted too,
Stars appear,
Night is here.
Breezes softly sigh,
They seem to cry,
"You're gone,
Oh you're gone!".

Nightingales above
Sing their songs of love,
But their song
Seems all wrong;
Just a melody
Reminding me
You're gone,
Oh how you're gone!

Now I'm alone,
You seem to haunt my memory.
Though I'm alone,
I seem to feel you kiss me tenderly.

How can I go on,
knowing that you're gone?
What can I say or do?
I'm lost and lonely now,
I must cofess I'm blue,
Yes blue!

(my, take it away there son!)
(oh mercy!)

Though I'm alone,
You seem to haunt my reverie.
Though I'm alone,
I seem to feel you kiss me tenderly.

How can I go on,
knowing that you're gone?
What can I say or do?
I'm lost and lonely now,
I must cofess I'm blue,
So blue over you!

Come on back to me baby, come on back!







(Contributed by Peter Akers - October 2010)