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I Get Along Without You Very Well
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Jimmy Dorsey
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Words by Jane Brown thompson and music by Hoagy Carmichael.
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Composed by Carmichael several years after being given Mrs. Thompson's
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unsigned poem by a student at Indiana University. After an extensive
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search, the author was located but she died the night before the song was
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introduced by Dick Powell on a network radio program.
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Sung by Hoagy Carmichael and Jane Russell in the 1952 film "The Las Vegas
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Story."
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I get along without you very well,
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Of course I do;
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Except when soft rains fall and drip from leaves,
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Then I recall the thrill of being sheltered in your arms,
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Of course I do.
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But I get along without you very well.
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I've forgotten you, just like I should,
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Of course I have;
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Except to hear your name
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Or someone's laugh that is the same.
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But I've forgotten you just like I should,
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What a guy!
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What a fool am I to think my breaking heart
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Could kid the moon.
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What's in store?
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Should I 'phone once more?
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No it's best that I stick to my tune.
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I get along without you very well,
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Of course I do;
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Except perhaps in spring,
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But I should never think of spring
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For that would surely break my heart in two.
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I Get Along Without You Very Well
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| Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra |
