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Am I Wasting My Time On You
Words & Music by Howard Johnson & Irving Bibo, 1926Recorded by Eddie Fisher, 1958
Intro Verse:
G B7 E7 A7 D9 Am7 D9 Am7 G Edim
Worried and blue, all over you, pleading for love but in vain;
G B7 E7 A7 D9 Am7 D7 Am A9 Gdim D7
How I've implored, will my reward be on - ly heart - aches and pain?
Melody:
G Cdim Am7 A7sus4 Am7 D9 D7/9 G9 G Bm7 Em Edim
Am I wast - ing my time by think - ing you're mine
C C/B D9 Edim G6 Edim D7
And dream - ing the way that I do?
G Cdim Am7 A7sus4 Am7 D9 D7/9 G9 G Bm7 Em Edim
Am I wast - ing the tears I cried all these years
E B7 E7
Just won - d'ring if your love is true?
G Cdim Am7 A7sus4 Am7 D9 D7/9 G9 G Bm7 Em Edim
Will I lose in the end and just be a friend?
C C/B D9 Am7 E
Please tell me it's time that I knew.
E7-9 C9 Am7 A7sus4 Cdim G/B Am7 G D6/7/9 E7
Will my heart have to pay, will you send me a - way
Edim C C/B Am7 Cdim(IV) G
Am I wast - ing my time on you?
(Instrumental Interlude: First Verse)
G Cdim Am7 A7sus4 Am7 D9 D7/9 G9 G Bm7 Em Edim
Will I lose in the end and just be a friend?
C C/B D9 Am7 E
Please tell me it's time that I knew.
E7-9 C9 Am7 A7sus4 Cdim G/B Am7 G D6/7/9 E7
Will my heart have to pay, will you send me a - way
Edim C C/B D9 Am7 E Edim C C/B D9 Am7 G
Am I wast - ing my time on you? Am I wast - ing my time on you?
*Requested by recent visitor Harry Head
**Credit here is given to Fisher, but mainly because I could identify when his version was recorded. In truth, this version is a synthesis of his and one by Vera Lynn (Fisher's did not include the verse so far as I've been able to tell) and probably owes more to Lynn's than to Fisher's...but I've been unable to identify when she recorded hers, and I dislike posting songs with incomplete information.