You Don't Know What Love Is

Words & Music by George DePaul, Don Raye
Recorded by Dinah Washington, 1955


E7  A9              Fdim
You don't know what love is

Am   A9     Am      G/B  E7    Em7-5 E7    Am
'Til you've learned the meaning  of  the blues;

  Dm         Dm+7     F           G7 Fdim  Am
Until you've loved a love you've had  to lose,

Dm Em7-5       E7 E7-9 Em7-5 E7
You don't know    what love  is.


E7  A9             Fdim
You don't know how lips hurt

  Am   A9     Am        G/B E7 Em7-5 E7   Am
Until you've kissed and had to  pay  the cost;

  Dm         Dm+7          F        G7 Fdim  Am
Until you've flipped your heart and you have lost,

Dm Em7-5       E7  E   A9   Am
You don't know    what love is.


Bridge:

G      G7   Fdim   C         CM7
Do you know how a lost heart fears

        G         Am7  G/B  C
At the thought of rem - i - nis - cing,

        Dm7       Fdim      C
And how lips that taste of tears

F          Bbm9      Em7-5    E7
Lose their taste for kissing?


E7  A9             Fdim
You don't know how hearts burn

Am   A9   Am   G/B      E7  Em7-5 E7    Am
For love that can - not live yet never dies.

  Dm         Dm+7        F         G7     Fdim  Am
Until you've faced each dawn with sleep - less eyes,

Dm Em7-5       E7  E   A9   Am
You don't know    what love is.


Suggested by recent visitor Miguel in Lisbon.


 
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