While We're Young

Words & Music by Alec Wilder, Morty Palitz & Bill Engvick
Recorded by Peggy Lee, 1947


A     C#7   D   Cdim E7   D9   Dm6    E7
Songs were meant to sing while we're young;

A    C#7  D Cdim E7/9   D9   Dm6    E7
Ev' - ry day is spring while we're young.

F#m            B7   F#m           E
None can re - fuse; time flies so fast.

F#m  Bm  F#m Fdim(III) Fdim E7  E7/6  E7 E7alt
Too dear to    lose,   and  too sweet to last.


A     C#7  D Cdim E7  D9  Dm6  E7
Though it may be just for to - day,

A     C#7  D  Cdim E7/9   D9  Dm6  E7
Share our love we  must, while we may;

F#m F#malt F#m+7 Gdim  D    D6   D9    Dm6
How  blue   the  sky,  all sweet sur - prise,

 A    C#m7-5  D  Cdim E7/9  Fdim   E7    A   
Shines be - fore our  eyes while we're young.


F#m F#malt F#m+7 Gdim  D    D6   D9    Dm6
How  blue   the  sky,  all sweet sur - prise,

 A    C#m7-5  D  Cdim E7/9  Fdim   E7    A   
Shines be - fore our  eyes while we're young.

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