QUICKSILVER
(Edward Pola / Irving Taylor / George Wyle)

Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters - 1949
Doris Day & The Country Cousins - 1949
Dick Haymes - 1949

Also recorded by: Elton Britt; Dolores Gray.


You're as hard to hold as quicksilver
When you kiss and run away
I dream you're mine and then as quick as quicksilver
All my dreams are led astray

I keep chasing you till I'm facing you
And embracing you with all your charms
Then you slip through my fingers just like quicksilver
Right into someone else's arms

Seems like I am havin' trouble with you
And I don't know what I'm gonna do
Seems like you're fickle, fickle as can be
And your fickle ways have got me up a tree

You're as hard to hold as quicksilver
When you kiss and run away
I dream you're mine and then as quick as quicksilver
All my dreams are led astray

I keep chasing you till I'm facing you
And embracing you with all your charms
Then you slip through my fingers just like quicksilver
Right into someone else's arms

Then you slip through my fingers just like quicksilver
Right into someone else's arms


(Transcribed by Bill Huntley & Mel Priddle - January 2005)