YOU CAN'T BE MINE AND SOMEONE ELSE'S TOO
(J C Johnson / Chick Webb)

as recorded by Billie Holiday
and her Orchestra


You can't be mine and someone else's too,
Someday you'll find I've been a friend to you.
I don't believe that life's worth livin',
I gave you all there was worth givin',
You never cared how I fared or what I'd do!

I called you mine but I was not to blame,
For all the time you played a two handed game.
Second hand love I can see,
It's good for some but not for me,
You can't be mine and someone else's too!

I called you mine but I was not to blame,
For all the time you played a two handed game.
Second hand love I can see,
It's good for some but not for me,
You can't be mine and someone else's too!



(Transcribed by Peter Akers - January 2015)