TAKE EVERYTHING BUT YOU
(Abrahams / Brown / De Sylva / Henderson)

as recorded by Kitty Kallen
with Jack Pleis & his Orchestra
1954


Take the sunshine, take the skies of blue,
Take everything but you!
Take the flowers, take my songbirds too,
Take everything but you!

For what good would a world full of treasures be?
It would rain in my heart if you're gone from me!
But with you near me I'll come smiling through,
Take everything but you!

What good would a world full of treasures be?
It would rain in my heart if you're gone from me!
But with you near me I'll come smiling through,
Take everything but you,
Take everything but you!



(Transcribed by Peter Akers - June 2014)