THERE BUT FOR YOU GO I
Frederick Loewe (m) Alan Jay Lerner (l)  1947

as rec by Frank Sinatra w Orch cond by Axel Stordahl  
March 31st 1947 Hollywood


This is to say, but as I wandered through the lea,
I felt for just a fleeting moment that I suddenly was free
Of being lonely, then I closed my eyes and saw the very reaso why;

I saw a man with his head bowed low,
His heart had no place to go;
I looked and I thought to myself, with a sigh,
"There but for you go I!".

I saw a man walking by the sea,
Alone with the tide was he;
I looked and I thought, as I watched him go by,
"There but for you go I!".

Lonely men around me,
Trying not to cry;
Till the day you found me,
There among them was I!

I saw a man who had never known
A love that was all his own;
I thought, as I thanked all the stars in the sky,
"There but for you go I!".




(Transcribed by Peter Akers - April 2011)