WHEN A WOMAN LOVES A MAN
(Johnny Mercer / Bernard Hanighen / Gordon Jenkins)

Elsie Carlisle
Also recorded by : Dave Barbour Four; Tony Bennett; Ruby Braff;
Buck Clayton; Eddie Condon & His All-Stars; Meredith d'Ambrosio;
Dardanelle; Eddy Duchin & His Orch.; Ella Fitzgerald; Jan Garber;
Jackie Gleason; Bobby Hackett; Richard Himber; Billie Holiday;
Gordon Jenkins; Jon-Erik Kellso; Jack Kerouac; Don Lamond; 
Julia Lee; Peggy Lee; Ranee Lee; Abbey Lincoln; Little Pattie;
Mel Powell; Della Reese; George Shearing; Dinah Shore; 
Bobby Short; Valaida Snow; Kay Starr; Sylvia Syms; Art Tatum;
Dinah Washington; Nancy Wilson.


Love, to a man, is just a thing apart
To take or leave according to his whim
Love, to a woman means her very heart
She only wants to live her life for him.

Maybe he's not much,
Just another man doing what he can
But what does she care
When a woman loves a man.
She'll just string along all through thick and thin
Till his ship comes in
It's always that way
When a woman loves a man

She'll be the first one to praise him when he's going strong
The last one to blame him when everything's wrong
It's such a one sided game that they play
But women are funny that way.

Tell her she's a fool,
She'll say yes I know but I love him so
And that's how it goes
When a woman loves a man

(Orchestral Interlude)

She'll be the first one to praise him when he's going strong
The last one to blame him when everything's wrong
It's such a one sided game that they play
But women are funny that way.

Tell her she's a fool,
She'll say yes I know but I love him so
And that's how it goes
When a woman loves a man


(Transcribed by Bill Huntley - December 2004)