YOU SET ME ON FIRE
Colwell /McKinnon

as recorded by Jimmie Lunceford 
& his Orchestra (vocal - Dan Grissom)  
January 31st 1939


You set me on fire,
And then you left me out in the cold;
First you warmed my heart and then you chilled it,
You gave me hope and then you killed it!

You set me on fire,
And then you left me out in the cold;
You led me to think, in many small ways,
Our romance would last always.

I never knew that human hearts could be so brittle,
Now I know it's so!
And now you're breaking mine to pieces little by little,
How can I keep you if you want to go?

why did I believe those lovely lies you told?
For you set me on fire,
And now I'm out in the cold!



(Transcribed by Peter Akers - March 2013)