I'LL WAIT AND PRAY
George Treadwell / Gerald Valentine

as rec by Sarah Vaughan w Ted Dale & his Orch  
Nov 8th 1947 New York


I'll wait and pray
Just for the day
When you come back to me once again;
Oh, my love is true,
Only for you, sweetheart!

All through the day,
In every way,
My heart cries that it won't ever stray,
For, happy or blue,
I'm all for you, sweetheart!

Beat of a dear,
You being near,
Just for a day or a week.
Love's thrill divine,
Ooh, would be mine;
Yo bring the joy that I seek!

I'm so darned lonesome, oh my!
I want to cry,
But your shoulder's so far far away!
But I'll wait and pray
To hurry the day
When you'll come back to me!

I'm so darned lonesome, oh my!
I want to cry,
But your shoulder's so far far away!
But I'll wait and pray
To hurry the day
When you'll come back to me!





(Transcribed by Peter Akers - February 2012)