I Just Couldn't Take It, Baby - 1933

Dr. Pitt-Payne in London UK - 31 Aug 2001

Look what you've done to me!
How you've got me's a shame,
don't know my name,
Look what you've done to me!
It isn't fun to me
to be perched on a fence,
kept in suspense.
It isn't fun to me!
Tell me that you really care,
can't believe you're
not on the square.

You just don't begin to know
the spot you've got me in,
if I ever thought you'd be untrue,
I just couldn't take it, Baby,
lovin' you the way I do.
If it turned out
I'd been givin' my fool self a ride,
had you figured out all wrong somehow,
I just couldn't take it, Baby,
Couldn't do without you now.
Some may take romance
as just a song and dance,
a game that they're just playin' at,
I just can't go gay
and laugh of love that way,
can't help it
you've made me like that.
Why?
If I ever found
that it was just a run around
and I didn't mean a thing to you,
I just couldn't take it, Baby,
lovin' you the way I do.

You just don't begin to know
the spot you've got me in,
if I ever thought you'd be untrue,
I just couldn't take it, Baby,
lovin' you the way I do.
If it turned out
I'd been givin' my fool self a ride,
had you figured out all wrong somehow,
I just couldn't take it, Baby,
Couldn't do without you now.
Some may take romance
as just a song and dance,
a game that they're just playin' at,
I just can't go gay
and laugh of love that way,
can't help it
you've made me like that.
Why?
If I ever found
that it was just a run around
and I didn't mean a thing to you,
I just couldn't take it, Baby,
lovin' you the way I do.

Look what you've done to me!
If my heart's in a flame
I'm not to blame,
look what you've done to me!
Spent all I had for you,
now it seems I'm to go,
though you must know
you've made me mad for you.
Was there nothing in your smile?
Was it only play all the while?

You just don't begin to know
the spot you've got me in,
if I ever thought you'd be untrue,
I just couldn't take it, Baby,
lovin' you the way I do.
If it turned out
I'd been givin' my fool self a ride,
had you figured out all wrong somehow,
I just couldn't take it, Baby,
Couldn't do without you now.
Some may take romance
as just a song and dance,
a game that they're just playin' at,
I just can't go gay
and laugh of love that way,
can't help it
you've made me like that.
Why?
If I ever found
that it was just a run around
and I didn't mean a thing to you,
I just couldn't take it, Baby,
lovin' you the way I do.

You just don't begin to know
the spot you've got me in,
if I ever thought you'd be untrue,
I just couldn't take it, Baby,
lovin' you the way I do.
If it turned out
I'd been givin' my fool self a ride,
had you figured out all wrong somehow,
I just couldn't take it, Baby,
Couldn't do without you now.
Some may take romance
as just a song and dance,
a game that they're just playin' at,
I just can't go gay
and laugh of love that way,
can't help it
you've made me like that.
Why?
If I ever found
that it was just a run around
and I didn't mean a thing to you,
I just couldn't take it, Baby,
lovin' you the way I do.

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I Just Couldn't Take It, Baby 1933

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I Just Couldn't Take It, Baby 1933
Music by Alberta Nicholls
Words by Mann Holiner
© 1933 MGM Corp., N.Y.
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Sequenced for Piano by Dr. Pitt-Payne
in London UK on Friday 31 Aug 2001 at 23.15
in association with Doug Grierson
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© James Pitt-Payne, London UK, 2001
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