NOBODY ELSE BUT ME
From the Broadway Revival of "Show Boat" (1946)
(Jerome Kern / Oscar Hammerstein II)

Jan Clayton (Broadway Production) - 1946
Betty Bennett - 1955
Barbara Lea - 1956
Sarah Vaughan - 1960
Mabel Mercer - 1960
Ruth Price - 1961
Irene Kral - 1963
Dinah Shore - 1965
Bobby Short - 1971 
Cleo Laine (London Production) - 1971
Meredith d'Ambrosio - 1985
Jonathan Schwartz - 1985
Jackie Paris - 1988
Weslia Whitfield - 1988
Madeline Eastman - 1990 
Rebecca Kilgore & John Miller - 1991 
Nora York - 1995
Marlene Ver Planck - 1998
Deborah Brown - 2002
Kristin Chenoweth - 2004

Also recorded by: Tony Bennett; Gogi Grant; Helen Merrill; 
Stan Getz; Rondi Charleston; Elaine Delmar; Sylvia McNair; 
Donna Byrne; Morgana King; Sandy Stewart: .... and others.

 

I was a shy, demure type
Inhibited, insecure type of maid
I stayed within my little shell
Till a certain cutie told me I was swell
Now I'm smug and snooty
Confident as hell

I want to be no-one but me
I am in love with a lover who likes me the way I am
I have my faults, he likes my faults
I'm not very bright, he's not very bright
He thinks I'm grand, that's grand for me
He may be wrong, but if we get along 
What do we care say we
When he holds me close, close as we can be
I tell the lad that I'm grateful and I'm glad that
I'm nobody else but me

I have my faults, he likes my faults
I'm not very bright, he's not very bright
He thinks I'm grand, that's grand for me
I get a thrill knowing he gets a thrill
When I sit on his knee
Walking on the shore, swimming in the sea 
When I am with him, I'm glad that girl who's with him
Is nobody else but me

When he holds me close, close as we can be
I tell the lad that I'm grateful and I'm glad that
I'm nobody else but me


(Transcribed from the Kristin Chenoweth 
 recording by Mel Pridlle - June 2006)