TRY TO FORGET
From the Broadway musical "The Cat And The Fiddle" (1931)
(Jerome Kern / Otto A. Harbach)

Bettina Hall (Broadway Production) - 1931
Peggy Wood (London Production) - 1932
Ambrose & His Orch. (vocal: Sam Browne) - 1932
Jeanette MacDonald (Film Soundtrack) - 1934
Patricia Neway - 1953
Woody Herman & His Orch. - 1956
Shirley Jones & Jack Cassidy - 1957
Daryl Sherman - 2001

Also recorded by: Georges Metaxa; Elisabeth Welch.


Jack:
Try to forget, won't you, all you have meant to me
And all I've meant to you, too

Shirley:
I'm sending back to you the things you sent to me
Your day dreams, your gay dreams,
Your glad dreams, your sad dreams,

Jack:
Yet, don't forget, will you
That memories haunt me too
Here's what they'll want me to do

Both:
To go on just doing my best to forget
So I'll be remembering you

(Musical Break)

Jack:
Try to forget, won't you, all you have meant to me,
And all I've meant to you too

Shirley:
I'm sending back to you the things you sent to me
Your day dreams, your gay dreams,
Your glad dreams, your mad dreams

Jack:
Yet, don't forget, will you
That memories haunt me too
Here's what they'll want me to do

Both:
To go on just doing my best to forget
So I'll be remembering you


(Contributed/Transcribed by Bill Huntley - August 2005)