IF IT WEREN'T FOR YOU
Taylor / Mizzy

as rec by Ella Fitzgerald  
Feb 15th 1940 New York


If it weren't for you,
Oh how worthless I'd be!
If it weren't for you,
They'd have to pity poor me!

My heart was upside down and sinking,
Had no reason to climb,
Till you happened to happen along,
Right in the nick of time!

If it weren't for you,
I'd be getting nowhere!
Now, instead I can view
The lovely future we'll share!

I don't know how I'd go on living,
Living the way I do;
I'd be only existing
If it weren't for you!

I don't know how I'd go on living,
Living the way I do;
I'd be only existing
If it weren't for you!
I don't know how I'd make it!
I just couldn't take it
If it weren't for you,
If it weren't for you!





(Contributed by Peter Akers - December 2009)