EVERYTHING HAPPENS FOR THE BEST
(Scott Billington / Lindsay Ellison)

as recorded by Billie Holiday
and her Orchestra
March 21st 1939 New York


Always blue or in a mist;
It's plain as can be
You're so mean to me,
But everything happens for the best!

You always play around,
You're runnin' my heart so deep in the ground;
That's okay,
It happen for the best!

I love you so madly,
Knew you would be true.
Now this thing has happened, dear,
It's over, all over because we're through!

So sorry dear it end this way;
Since the world begin,
The old folk say,
Everything happens for the best!

I love you so madly,
Knew you would be true.
Now this thing has happened, dear,
It's over, all over because we're through!

So sorry dear it end this way;
Since the world begin,
The old folk say,
Everything happens for the best!



(Transcribed by Peter Akers - January 2014)