I DON'T WANT THE WORLD
Lange / Heath

as rec by Ella Fitzgerald w Four Hits & A Miss  
May 9th 1950 Los Angeles


Don't want the gladness and never the pain,
Don't want the sunshine and never the rain;
My darlin' all I want is you!

I don't want the world with a fence around it,
I don't ask for skies to be always blue.
I don't want the gladness and never the pain,
I don't ask for sunshine and never the rain.
(I never ask for the rain)

I want happiness and when I have found it,
From then on my wants will be very few!
I don't want the world with a fence around it,
My darlin' all I want is you!

I don't want the world with a fence around it,
(oh no, oh no)
I don't ask for skies to be always blue.
(always blue)
I don't want the gladness and never the pain,
(never the pain, oh no)
I don't ask for sunshine and never the rain.
(never the rain)

I want happiness and when I have found it,
From then on my wants will be very few!
I don't want the world with a fence around it,
My darlin' all I want (all I want) is you!



(Transcribed by Peter Akers - July 2011)