WHY SHOULDN'T I?
From the Broadway Show "Jubilee" (1935)
(Music & Lyrics by Cole Porter)

Margaret Adams (Broadway Production) - 1935
Frank Sinatra - 1945
Tommy Dorsey & His Orch. - 1948
Tony Perkins - 1957
Jeri Southern - 1959
Nancy Wright - 1960
Joanie Summers - 1962
Rosemary Clooney - 1963
Lee Wiley - 1971

Also recorded by: Mary Martin; Anita O'Day; Betty Roché;
Jaye P. Morgan; Chris Connor; Teddy Wilson; Bobby Short;
Paul Desmond; Django Reinhardt......and others.



All my life I've been so secluded
Love has eluded me
But from knowing second hand what I do of it
I feel certain I could stand a closer view of it

Why shouldn't I take a chance when romance passes by?
Why shouldn't I know of love?
Why wait around when each age has a sage who has found
That upon this earth love is all that is really worth thinking of?

It must be fun, lots of fun
To be sure when day is done
That the hour is coming when you'll be kissed
And then you'll be kissed again

All debutantes say it's good
And every star out in far Hollywood
Seems to give it a try
So why shouldn't I?

All debutantes say it's good
And every star out in far Hollywood
Seems to give it a try
So why shouldn't I?



(Contributed by Peter Akers - December 2010)