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It's A Blue World
Words & Music by Robert Wright & Chet ForrestRecorded by The Four Freshmen, 1953
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It's a blue world with - out you;
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It's a blue world a - lone.
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My days and nights that once were filled with hea - ven,
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With you away, how emp - ty they have grown.
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It's a blue world from now on,
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It's a blue world for me.
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The sea, the sky, my heart and I,
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We're all in an in - di - go hue;
First Time:
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Without you, it's a blue, blue world.
Turnaround:
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Last Time:
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Without you, it's a blue, blue world.
Instrumental Coda:
Ritard
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I under-estimated this song for many years, thinking it 'way too ho-hum dull to be worth a second look. Then one day I concentrated on the harmony in the chord structure. Play through it and I think you'll agree it's anything but "ho-hum."