TO KNOW YOU IS TO LOVE YOU 
Robert Allen (m) Allan Roberts (l) 1952)

as recorded by Perry Como
backed by Ray Charles*
with Mitchell Ayres & his Orchestra
May 21st 1959 New York


To know you is to love you,
And I love you 'cause I know you
Are such a sweetheart,
That when you walk down the street,
Everyone's heart just naturally skips a beat!

The others who have met you
Better start in to forget you,
Because to know you is to love you so,
It's time for everyone you know
To know you love me!

Were you the sun it would be twice as sunny!
Were you a bee there would be sweeter honey!
Were you a tune, everyone would be croonin',
Harmonizin' out in the street!
You're such a bundle of me-oh-my,
And that's the reason when you go by,
Each heart naturally skips a beat!

Dear,
The others,
(Were you the spring you would be twice as springy!)
Who have met you,
(Were you a vine you would be twice as clingy!)
Better start in,
(Were you the moon everyone would be spoonin'!)
To forget you,
(Every night would be mighty sweet!)
Because to know you is to love you so,
It's time for everyone you know,
To know you love me!

And because to know you is to love you so,
It's time for everyone you know,
To know you,
Everyone should know you,
Know, yes know you love me!



* not Ray Charles Robinson!
(Transcribed by Peter Akers - July 2017)