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