WHILE WE'RE YOUNG
(Alec Wilder / Morty Palitz / Bill Engvick)


Peggy Lee - 1947
Perry Como - 1952
Tony Bennett - 1952
Mabel Mercer - 1952
Patti Page - 1955
Johnny Hartman - 1956
Johnny Mathis - 1957
Dinah Shore (with André Previn) - 1960
Dinah Washington - 1960
Sue Raney - 1960
James Darren - 1962
Joni James - 1965
Jack Jones - 1965
John Gary - 1966
Helen Merrill - 1968
Marian McPartland - 1973
Carol Sloane - 1988
Ruth Brown - 1993
Gloria Lynne - 1997
Wesla Whitfield - 2000
Jackie Ryan - 2006

Also recorded by: 
Rosemary Clooney; Sue Raney; Judy Garland; Dick Haymes; 
Della Reese; Steve Allen; Percy Faith; The Four Lads; 
The Hi-Lo's; Don Cherry..........and many others.





Songs were meant to sing while we're young
Ev'ry day is Spring while we're young

None can refuse, time flys so fast
Too dear to lose and too sweet to last

Though it may be just for today
Share our love we must while we may

How blue the sky, all sweet surprise
Shines before our eyes while we're young

How blue the sky, all sweet surprise
Shines before our eyes while we're young


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WHILE WE'RE YOUNG


as recorded by Tony Bennett
with Percy Faith & his Orchestra
1951


Songs were made to sing
While we're young;
Every day is Spring
While we're young!
None can refuse,
Time flies so fast,
Too dear to lose
And too sweet to last!

Though it may be just
For today,
Share our love we must
While we may!
So blue the skies,
All sweet surprise,
Shines before our eyes
While we're young.



(Transcribed by Peter Akers - August 2013)