BUT BEAUTIFUL
From the film "Road To Rio" (1948)
(Johnny Burke / James Van Heusen)

Bing Crosby (Film Soundtrack) - 1947
Eddy Howard & His Orch. - 1947
Tex Beneke & His Orch. (vocal: Garry Stevens) - 1947
Frank Sinatra - 1948
Bing Crosby - 1948
Mel Tormé - 1948
Margaret Whiting - 1948
Denny Dennis - 1948
Art Lund - 1948
Maurice Chevalier - 1949
Doris Day - 1956
Nat King Cole - 1958
Billie Holiday - 1958
Betty Carter - 1958
Johnny Hartman - 1959
The Coasters - 1960
Linda Lawson - 1960
Alma Cogan - 1962
Nat King Cole - 1964
Della Reese - 1966
Nancy Wilson - 1969
Aretha Franklin - 1979
Tony Bennett - 1975
Engelbert Humperdinck - 1985
Shawn Colvin - 1998
Barbra Streisand - 2003

Also Recorded by:
Brook Benton; Dana Lauren; Carmen McRae; Johnny Mathis; Nina Simone;
Gregory Porter; Bob Dylan; The Four Freshmen .......... and many others.



Love is funny or it's sad 
Or it's quiet or it's mad
It's a good thing or it's bad
But beautiful

Beautiful to take a chance
And if you fall, you fall
And I'm thinking I wouldn't mind at all

Love is tearful or it's gay
It's a problem or it's play
It's a heartache either way
But beautiful

And I'm thinking if you were mine
I'd never let you go
And that would be but beautiful I know

(Instrumental Break)

And I'm thinking if you were mine
I'd never let you go
And that would be but beautiful I know


(Transcribed by Mel Priddle - January 2019)