I CAN'T GIVE YOU ANYTHING BUT LOVE (BABY) 
(Dorothy Fields / Jimmy McHugh)

Recorded by :
Louis Armstrong; Chet Baker; Chris Barber's Jazz Band;
Bix Beiderbecke; Earls Bostic; Connee Boswell; Dave Brubeck; 
Cab Calloway; Carmen Cavallaro; Frank Chacksfield; 
June Christy; Nat King Cole; Bobby Darin; Doris Day; 
Marlene Dietrich; Fats Domino; Tommy Dorsey; Duke Ellington; 
Dorothy Fields; Eddie Fisher; Ella Fitzgerald; Helen Forrest; 
The Four Freshmen; The Four Seasons; Judy Garland; 
Erroll Garner; Nat Gonella; Benny Goodman; Stephane Grappelli;
Adelaide Hall; Lionel Hampton; Ted Heath; Earl Hines;
Billie Holiday; Lena Horne; Joni James; Louis Jordan;
Bert Kaempfert; Eartha Kitt; Cleo Laine; Frankie Laine;
Peggy Lee; Dean Martin; Johnny Mathis; James McHugh;
George Melly; Glenn Miller; The Mills Brothers; Rose Murphy; 
Red Nicholls; Anita O'Day; Sy Oliver; Ottlie Patterson; 
Les Paul & Mary Ford; Oscar Peterson; Louis Prima; 
Django Reinhardt; Artie Shaw & his Orch.; Dinah Shore; 
The Stylistics; Art Tatum; Nino Tempo; Mel Tormé; 
Sarah Vaughan; Fats Waller; Ethel Waters; Margaret Whiting;
.... and many more.


I can't give you anything but love, baby
That's the only thing I've plenty of, baby
Dream a while, scheme a while
You're sure to find
Happiness and I guess
All those things you've always pined for

Now, gee I love to see you looking' swell, baby
Diamond bracelets Woolworth doesn't sell, baby
Till that lucky day, you know darn well, baby
I can't give you anything but love

Gee, I love to see you looking'  swell, baby.
Look like you just came up out of the wishing well, baby.
Dream awhile, scheme awhile and you're sure happiness and 
ALL those things you been looking' for baby.
Gee, I love to see you looking'  swell, baby !!
Diamond rings, bracelets, gold watches 'n' everything, baby.
Until that lucky day, honey, you know good 'n' doggone well, honey, 
I can't give you a DADGUM thing but love.

Now, I can't give you anything but love, baby
That's the only thing I've plenty of, baby
Dream a while, scheme a while
You're sure to find
Happiness and I guess
All those things you've always pined for
Now, gee I love to see you looking' swell, baby
Diamond bracelets Woolworth doesn't sell, baby
Till that lucky day, you know darn well, baby
I can't give you anything but love

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as rec by Ella Fitzgerald  1950's


Gee but it's tough
To be broke, kid,
It's not a joke, kid,
It's a curse!
My luck is changing,
It's gotten
>From simply rotten
To something worse!

Who knows,
Someday I will win too,
I'll begin to
Reach my prime.
Now, though
I see what our end is,
All I can spend is
Just my time!

I can't give you anything but love, baby.
That's the only thing I've plenty of, baby.
Dream awhile,
Scheme awhile,
We're sure to find
Happiness,
And I guess,
All those things you've always pined for

Gee I'd like to see you looking swell, my little baby.
Diamond bracelets Woolworth doesn't sell, baby.
Till that lucky day you know darned well, baby,
I can't give you anything but love

Till that lucky day you know darned well, baby,
I can't give you anything but love



(Transcribed by Peter Akers - March 2011)