FOOL THAT I AM
(Floyd Hunt)

Floyd Hunt Quartette (vocal: Gladys Palmer) - 1946
Dinah Washington - 1947
Billy Eckstine - 1947
Georgia Gibbs - 1947
Swing & Sway With Sammy Kaye (vocal: Don Cornell) - 1948
Dinah Shore - 1949
Billy Eckstine & The Quartones - 1949
Dinah Washington - 1949
La Vergne Smith - 1955
LaVern Baker - 1956
Lurlean Hunter - 1960
Etta James - 1961
Della Reese - 1966

Also recorded by: 
Adele; The Ravens; The Brooks Bros; Marlene VerPlanck; Bev Kelly;
Mae Arnette; Liberty Silver; Jacqui Naylor ....... and others.





As recorded by DINAH WASHINGTON:

Fool that I am
For falling in love with you
Fool that I am
For thinking you'd love me, too

You took my heart
Then played the part of little coquette
My dreams, my dreams just disappeared
Like the smoke from a lit cigarette

Ooh-aah, fool that I am
For hoping you’d understand
And thinking you'd have the brain
To see the things I had planned

But we couldn’t see eye to eye, yeah
My daddy, this is goodbye
Don't you know I still care
Silly silly fool  that I am


(Transcribed by Mel Priddle - September 2018)


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As recorded by ETTA JAMES:

Fool that I am
For falling in love with you
And, ah, fool that I am
For thinking you loved me, too

You took my heart
Then played the part of, of little coquette
And all my dreams just disappeared
Like the smoke from a cigarette

And oh-yeah-yeah, fool that I am
For hoping, oh-ooh, you’d understand
And thinking you would listen, too
And, oh, the things I had planned

But we couldn’t see eye to eye
So, darling, darling, darling, this is goodbye
But I still care, but I still care
And oh, fool that I am

Oh-ooh, but I still care
Fool that I am


(Transcribed by Mel Priddle - August 2004)