DON'T EVER LEAVE ME
From the Broadway Musical "Sweet Adeline" (1929)
(Music: Jerome Kern / Lyrics: Oscar Hammerstein II)

Helen Morgan (Broadway Production) - 1929
Roger Wolfe Kahn & his Orch - 1929
Irene Dunne (Film Soundtrack) - 1934
Pearl Bailey (with The Charioteers) - 1947
Polly Bergen - 1957
Patsy Cline - 1957
Connie Haines - 1957
Peggy Lee - 1959
Margaret Whiting - 1960
Carmen McRae - 1961
Liza Minnelli - 1964
Barbra Streisand - 1973
Jonathan Schwartz - 1985
Andrea Marcovicci - 1987
Larry Carr - 1994
Keith Jarrett - 1994
Annette Sanders & Kevin DiSimone - 1999
Jody Sandhaus - 2004
Philip Chaffin - 2005
Edith 'Little Edie' Bouvier Beale (feat. in the documentary
film "The Beales of Grey Gardens") - 2006

Also recorded by: Lew Stone & His Band (vocal: Al Hoffman);
Stanley Black & The Kingsway Promenade Orch.; Judy Garland;
Hank Jones Quartet; Peggy King; Dorothy Kirsten; Peggy Lee;
Joyce Collins; Pat Healy; Sylvia Syms; Voices Of Ascension;
Gogi Grant; Roy Fox & His Band ........ and others.



I was created for one man alone
It wasn't easy to find
Now that I found him, I wonder just how
I could have lived right up to now

Now that I am something completed by you
I am no one, just part of two

Don't ever leave me, now that you're here
Here is where you belong
Ev'rything seems so right when you're near
When you're away it's all wrong

I'm so dependent, when I need comfort
I always run to you
Don't ever leave me, 'cause if you do
I'll have no one to run to

Don't ever leave me alone



(Contributed by Peter Akers - November 2008)