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Thread #71893 Message #1233024
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
24-Jul-04 - 05:30 PM
Thread Name: Lyr/Chord Req: Someone To Watch Over Me (Gershwin)
Subject: ADDPOP: Someone to Watch Over Me
What? Not in the DT?
Someone to Watch Over Me George and Ira Gershwin, 1926
There's a saying old that love is blind; Still we're often told: "seek and ye shall find." So I'm going to seek a certain lad (girl) I've had in mind.
Looking everywhere, haven't found him (her) yet. He's (She's) the big affair I cannot forget. Only man (girl) I ever think of with regret.
I'd like to add his (her) initial to my monogram; Tell me, where's the shepherd for this lost lamb.
There's a somebody I'm longing to see, I hope that he (she) turns out to be- Someone who'll watch over me. I'm a little lamb who's lost in the wood, I know I could, always be good, To one who watched over me.
Although he (she) may not be the man some girls (girl some men) think of, As handsome, to my heart- he (she) carries the key.
Won't you tell him (her) please, To put on some speed, Follow my lead, oh how I need Someone to watch over me.
Won't you tell him (her) please, To put on some speed, Follow my lead, oh how I need- Someone to watch over me. Someone to watch over me.
From the 1926 musical "Oh, Kay." Book by Guy Bolton and P. G. Wodehouse, lyrics, Ira Gershwin, music, George Gershwin. I guess I remember Judy Garland most for this one.