SYMPATHY
(Rudolf Friml / Otto Harbach)

Shirley Jones & Jack Cassidy

Also recorded by: Ambrose; Stanley Black; Helen Clark; 
Bob Crosby; Irving Fazola; Allan Jones; Vera Lynn; 
Victor Sylvester; Earl Wrightson.


Shirley:
You need sympathy, sympathy, just sympathy

Jack:
I'm just trying to be friendly and gentle, not sentimental

Both:
So if I should touch your hand
Don't misunderstand its meaning
You must know I'm not showing
Sympathy.

(Musical Break)

Jack:
You need sympathy, sympathy, just sympathy

Shirley:
I'm just trying to be friendly and gentle, not sentimental

Both:
So if I should touch your hand
Don't misunderstand its meaning
You must know I'm not showing
Sympathy.


(Contributed/Transcribed by Bill Huntley - August 2005)



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SYMPATHY 
from "The Firefly" 1912 opera New York & 1937 film
Rudolph Friml (m) otto Harbach (l) Gus Kahn (l)

as recorded by Richard Tauber 
with Orchestra conducted by Walter Goehr  
October 6th 1937
London


You look so young when you're feeling sad,
Mm-mm, mm-mm.
You seem to be just a tiny lad,
Mm-mm, mm-mm.
But any pity you get from me
You must remember is sympathy!

You need sympathy,
Sympathy, just sympathy!
I'm just trying to be
Friendly and gentle,
But not sentimental!

So if I should touch your hand,
Don't misunderstand its meaning;
You must know I'm but showing sympathy!

So if I should touch your hand,
Don't misunderstand its meaning;
You must know I'm but showing sympathy!



(Transcribed by Peter Akers - February 2013)