I Get Along Without You Very Well

Words & Music by Jane Brown Thompson & Hoagy Carmichael
Recorded by Rosemary Clooney, 1960


D      Bm7-5    G       A7   D    Cdim     G/B   G  D
I get along without you very well,     of course I do;

  G    G/F#  Em7        A7       Em7        G          A7
Except when soft rains fall and drip from leaves, then I recall

    G         G/F#   Em7      A7       D9  Cdim    Bm7-5    A7
The thrill of being sheltered in your arms,     of course I do. 

      G             E7       A7   D
But I get along without you very well.


D          Bm7-5      G         A7      D    Cdim  G/B    G  D
I've for - got - ten you, just like I should,   of course I have;

  G       G/F#     Em7        A7       Em7        G       A7
Except to hear your name, or someone's laugh that is the same.

     G      G/F#    E7       A7  G    D
But I've forgotten you just like I should.


D7      G  Gm7        D      Bm7
What a guy!    What a fool am I 

    Em7              Gm7         A7       D 
To think my breaking heart could kid the moon.

D7         G    Gm7          F#7         Bm7
What's in store?   Should I 'phone once more?

          Em7          E7         Em7   G/B   A7
No, it's best that I stick to my tune.


D      Bm7-5    G       A7   D    Cdim     G/B   G  D
I get along without you very well,     of course I do;

G         G/F#      Em7  A7    Em7       G    G/B       A7
Except perhaps in spring...but I should never think of spring,

    G          G/F#    E7       A7   G   D
For that would surely break my heart in two.


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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