From “Blackbirds of 1934”
Words by Mann Holiner
Music by Alberta Nichols
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
Look what you’ve done to me
How you’ve got me’s a shame
Don’t know my name
Look what you’ve done to me
It isn’t fun to me
To be perched on the fence
Kept in suspense
It isn’t fun to me
Tell me that you really care
Can’t believe you’re not on the square
Chorus:
You just don’t begin
To know the spot you’ve got me in
If I ever thought you’d be untrue
I just couldn’t take it, Baby
Lovin’ you the way I do
If it turned out I’d
Been givin’ my fool self a ride
Had you figured out all wrong somehow,
Well I just couldn’t take it, Baby
Couldn’t do without you now
Some may take romance
As just a song and dance
A game that they’re just playin’ at
I just can’t go gay
And laugh off love that way
Can’t help it you made me like that
Why? If I ever found
That it was just the run around
And I didn’t mean a thing to you
I just couldn’t take it, Baby
Lovin’ you the way I do
Sung by Laurence Rubenstein: