Have You Ever Been Lonely?

Words & Music by Peter DeRose & George Brown
Recorded by Ted Lewis, 1933 (#8)*


A        E7   A    Cdim    A            F#7  Edim  E7
Have you ever been lone - ly?  Have you ever been blue?

E7       Edim  E    E7/9   E7         Fdim    A  AM7  A7
Have you ever loved some - one just as I love you?

          G/B A7   D   Dalt             Fdim(III) D     A
Can't you see I'm sor - ry for each mis - take    I've made?

         Fdim        E           B7                   E    E+7   E7
Can't you see I've changed, dear?  Can't you see I've paid?


A     E7     A    Cdim   A            F#7    Edim  E7
Be a little for - giv - ing; take me back in your heart.

E7     Edim    E  E7/9   E7          Cdim    F#7
How can  I  go on liv - ing now that we're apart?

   Fdim  D       DM7        Bm7-5   E7         A       C#m7-5     F#7
If you knew what I've been through, you would know why   I    ask you

        Edim         E    E7   Bm7-5          E    E7    A     D9  A
Have you ever been lone - ly?        Have you ever been blue?



(Instrumental Interlude - First Half of Verse)



Fdim  D       DM7        Bm7-5   E7         A       C#m7-5     F#7
If you knew what I've been through, you would know why   I    ask you

        Edim         E    E7   Bm7-5          E    E7    A     D9  A
Have you ever been lone - ly?        Have you ever been blue?

*This song was also recored my Teresa Brewer in 1960 (#84), by Patsy Cline in 1961, by Jim Reeves and Patsy Cline in 1961, by Reeves himself in 1962, and by The Caravelles in 1964 (#94).

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