FORGET IF YOU CAN
(Jack Manus / Len Joy / Kay Upham)

as recorded by
Billie Holiday & her Orchestra
May 11th 1938 New York


Forget if you can
Romantic music one magical night,
A corner table in dim candle light,
A kiss that was heaven for two.
Forget if you can
The day we hiked to where nobody knows,
The swell spaghetti at Tony and Joe's,
It hasn't been fun without you.

Don't you remember
All the silly things we used to do?
The way we laughed
When we were photographed
As handsome Hal
And his tin type gal?

Why couldn't we plan
More happy moments like we used to spend?
They were so perfect, too perfect to end;
Let your heart forget if you can!

Don't you remember
All the silly things we used to do?
The way we laughed
When we were photographed
As handsome Hal
And his tin type gal?

Why couldn't we plan
More happy moments like we used to spend?
They were so perfect, too perfect to end;
Let your heart forget if you can!



(Transcribed by Peter Akers - September 2013)