IN LOVE IN VAIN
(Jerome Kern / Leo Robin)
Dick Haymes &  Helen Forrest


Also recorded by:


Mildred Bailey, Diahann Carroll, Charles Cochran, 
Jill Corey, Bobby Darin, Doris Day, Johnny Desmond,
Eddie Fisher, Helen Forrest, Eydie Gorme, 
Lena Horne, Joni James, Carmen McRae, 
Helen Merrill, Jane Powell, André Previn,
George Shearing, Nina Simone, Mel Tormé, 
Sarah Vaughan, Paul Weston & his Orchestra,
Margaret Whiting…………..and others.




(Helen)
It’s only human for anyone to want to be in love
But who wants to be in love in vain
At night you hang around the hall
And eat your heart out
And cry your eyes out
And rack your brains


(Dick)
You sit and wonder why anyone as wonderful as she
Should cause you such misery and pain
I thought that I would be in Heaven
But I’m only up a tree
‘Cos it’s just my luck to be in love in vain.


(Musical break)


(Helen)
You sit and wonder why anyone as wonderful as he
Should cause you such misery and pain


(Dick)
I thought that I would be in Heaven
But I’m only up a tree


(Both)
‘Cos it’s just my luck to be in love in vain.










(Contributed by Bill Huntley - November 2008)