If I Didn’t Have You

A popular song from 1931.
Words and music by E. Y. Harburg and Milton Ager.


Sheet music provided by Laurence Rubenstein:


Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:


Lyrics

  1. Life is more than sweet
    Whole world at my feet
    All because I know you care for me, dear
    Not a cloud above
    But without your love
    Oh, how diff’rent ev’rything would be, dear

Chorus
Skies would be gray for me
If I didn’t have you
Each hour a day for me
If I didn’t have you
What would I live for, tell me, what would I do
If I didn’t have you?
No moon would beam for me
When the shadows would fall
There’d be no dream for me
In the night-in-gale’s call
This lovely world would mean just nothing at all
If I didn’t have you

  1. Winter seems like Spring
    I have learned to sing
    Since you came along in all your glory
    Had you passed me by
    It is certain I
    Would have had to tell a diff’rent story

Sung here by Fred Feild: