TRY TO FORGET
From the Broadway musical "The Cat And The Fiddle" (1931)
(Jerome Kern / Otto A. Harbach)

Bettina Hall (Broadway Production) - 1931
Peggy Wood (London Production) - 1932
Ambrose & His Orch. (vocal: Sam Browne) - 1932
Jeanette MacDonald (Film Soundtrack) - 1934
Patricia Neway - 1953
Woody Herman & His Orch. - 1956
Shirley Jones & Jack Cassidy - 1957
Daryl Sherman - 2001

Also recorded by: Georges Metaxa; Elisabeth Welch.


Jack:
Try to forget, won't you, all you have meant to me
And all I've meant to you, too

Shirley:
I'm sending back to you the things you sent to me
Your day dreams, your gay dreams,
Your glad dreams, your sad dreams,

Jack:
Yet, don't forget, will you
That memories haunt me too
Here's what they'll want me to do

Both:
To go on just doing my best to forget
So I'll be remembering you

(Musical Break)

Jack:
Try to forget, won't you, all you have meant to me,
And all I've meant to you too

Shirley:
I'm sending back to you the things you sent to me
Your day dreams, your gay dreams,
Your glad dreams, your mad dreams

Jack:
Yet, don't forget, will you
That memories haunt me too
Here's what they'll want me to do

Both:
To go on just doing my best to forget
So I'll be remembering you


(Contributed/Transcribed by Bill Huntley - August 2005)


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TRY TO FORGET (Georges Metaxa)


as recorded by Georges Metaxa 
with Leonard Joy & his Band 
 March 1932 
 New York


The night that you met me,
You went on and let me
Believe that you want me to care.
I could not doubt you,
For something about you
Seemed fair and square.

Your love voice was calling,
I felt myself falling;
I thought I knew you,
So gave myself to you
There, but now,
I've lost my heart somehow.

Try to forget, won't you,
All you have meant to me
And all I've meant to you too.
I'm sending back to you
The things you sent to me too;
Your day dreams,
Your gay dreams,
Your glad dreams,
Your mad dreams.

Yet, don't forget, will you
That memories haunt me too,
Here's what they'd want me to do;
To go on just doing my best to forget,
So I'll be remembering you.

Your glad dreams,
Your mad dreams.

Yet, don't forget, will you
That memories haunt me too,
Here's what they want me to do;
To go on just doing my best to forget,
So I'll remember you.



(Transcribed by Peter Akers - December 2012)