MAKE BELIEVE 
From the musical "Show Boat" (1927)
(Jerome Kern / Oscar Hammerstein II)

Paul Whiteman & His Orch. (vocal: Bing Crosby) - 1928
Allan Jones & Irene Dunne - 1936
Deanna Durbin (live)
	Sung during Eddie Cantor Show (Texaco Town)
	November 1st 1936
	December 15th 1937
	May 16th 1937
Ella Fitzgerald - 1940
Charles Fredericks & Jan Clayton - 1946
Jo Stafford - 1949
Howard Keel & Kathryn Grayson - 1951
Connie Haines - 1955
Robert Merrill & Patrice Munsel - 1956
John Raitt & Barbara Cook - 1962
Barbra Streisand - 1964
Stephen Douglass & Barbara Cook - 1966
Andre Jobin & Lorna Dallas - 1971
Barbara Lea - 1983
Harry Nilsson - 1988
Jerry Hadley & Frederica von Stade - 1988
Richard White & Rebecca Baxter - 1989
Dick Hyman & The Three Deuces - 1994
Jason Howard & Janis Kelly - 1995
André Previn & Friends - 1995
Thomas Allen & Valerie Masterson - 1996
Lou Lanza - 1998

Also recorded by: Edith Day & Howett Worster; Benny Goodman; 
Vince Hill; Monty Alexander; Kenny Dorham; Coleman Hawkins; 
Jane Powell & Frank Sinatra; Jimmie Lunceford; Tony Martin; 
Joan Sutherland; Lionel Hampton; Roger Whittaker; Art Tatum; 
Johnny Guarnieri; Bob Wilber; Glenn Miller; Monty Alexander; 
David Kernan & Gemma Craven; Dorothy Kirsten; Elvis Presley; 
Burl Ives; Franz Koglmann.


The game of "just supposing" is the sweetest game I know,
Our dreams are more romantic than the world we see.
And if the things we dream about don't happen to be so,
That's just an unimportant technicality....

We could make believe I love you,
Only make believe that you love me.
Others find peace of mind in pretending,
Couldn't you? Couldn't I? Couldn't we
Make believe our lips are blending
In a phantom kiss, or two, or three?
Might as well make believe I love you,
For to tell the truth, I do.

Your pardon I pray, 'twas too much to say,
The words that betray my heart.
We only pretend, you do not offend,
In playing a lover's part.

Though the cold and brutal fact is you and I have never met,
We need not mind convention's P's and Q's,
If we put our thoughts in practice we can banish all regret
Imagining most anything we choose....

We could make believe I love you,
Only make believe that you love me.
Others find peace of mind in pretending,
Couldn't you? Couldn't I? Couldn't we
Make believe our lips are blending
In a phantom kiss or two, or three?
Might as well make believe I love you,
For to tell the truth, I do.