YOU TURNED THE TABLES ON ME
(Sidney D. Mitchell / Louis Alter)

Helen Ward (with Benny Goodman & his Orchestra)

Also recorded by : Mose Allison; Louis Armstrong; Count Basie;
Tex Beneke; Kenny Burrell; Ann Hampton Callaway; Kenny Clarke;
Loretta Cormier; Bing Crosby; Putney Dandridge; 
Wild Bill Davison; Buddy DeFranco; Digby Fairweather; Alice Faye;
Jonathan Feldman Trio; Cecilia Finotti; Ella Fitzgerald;
Helen Forrest; Stan Getz; Bobby Gordon; Eydie Gormé; 
Bobby Hackett; Angela Hagenbach; Lionel Hampton; Woody Herman;
Eddie Higgins; Billie Holiday; Jack Hylton; Harry James;
Steve Jordan; Stan Kenton; Gene Krupa & His Orch.; Peggy Lee;
Mundell Lowe; Billy May; Marian McPartland; Billy Mitchell;
Jaye P. Morgan; Gerry Mulligan Quartet; 
Don Neely Royal's Society Jazz Orch.; Anita O'Day; 
Sarah Partridge; Freda Payne; Ken Peplowski; Oscar Peterson;
Sid Phillips; Janet Planet; Hanna Richardson; Annie Ross;
Cynthia Sayer; Bobby Scott; Ray Sherman; Christine Sullivan;
Ralph Sutton; Tempo King & His Kings Of Tempo; Allan Vaché;
Johnny Varro; Sarah Vaughan; Marlene Ver Planck; 
Margaret Whiting; Teddy Wilson.


I used to be the apple of your eye
I had you with me every day,
But now whenever you are passing by
You're always looking the other way
It's little things like this
That prompt me to say:

You turned the tables on me
And now I'm falling for you
You turned the tables on me
I can't believe that it's true
I always thought when you brought
The lovely presents you bought
Why hadn't you brought me more,
But now if you'd come
I'd welcome anything from
The five and ten cent store,

You used to call me the top
You put me up on a throne
You let me fall with a drop
And now I'm out on my own.
But after thinking it over and over,
I got what was coming to me
Just like the sting of a bee
You turned the tables on me.


(Contributed by Bill Huntley - February 2005)