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You Broke The Only Heart That Ever Loved You
Words & Music by Freddy James & Little Jack LittleRecorded by The Mills Brothers, 1946
Cdim E C#m7-5 F#7 B7
Your rep - u - tation has preceeded you;
Cdim E C#m7-5 F#7 B7
You always hurt someone who needed you.
E Edim F#m Fm7
It doesn't take long for news to get around,
A Cdim B7
And now you want to be found,
Cdim Edim E G#m7 C#7 F#7
'Cause you broke the only heart that ever loved you,
B7 Cdim B7 Cdim E6
And you tossed away the only love you knew.
E9 F#m G#m F#m
As if nothin' mattered, you battered and shattered
A F#m B7
A heart so true,
C#m C#m7 C#7 F#7
Only to wake up and find that the break-up
A Cdim B7
Was breakin' the heart of you.
E Edim G#m7 C#7 F#7
And now you come to me for con - so - la - tion --
B7 Cdim B7 C#7
And I'd be a fool to fall for such a line.
A Edim F#m Cdim E G#m7 C#7
Yes, you broke the only heart that ever loved you,
A F#m
And now that I met you,
Cdim B7 E
I'm not gonna let you break mine.
This one qualifies as another "happy accident." Every now and then, I search for .MP3 files by artist name, just to see what's out there. I recently found a Mills Brothers medley which included this song -- a song which I don't believe I had ever heard before. So, I started looking for it, in particular, along with the authorship and recording date. I found both, through the assistance of the great folks at the Mills Brothers website, but it took quite a little digging on their part -- and I'm very grateful for their efforts.