Track Title:               Imagine Me Without My You

Prime Artist:              Unknown

Prime Artist:              Clare Stratton and Ernest Glendinning
Lyrics by:                 Robert Russell Bennett
Lyrics by:                 Ira Gershwin     (b. Israel Gershvin)
Music by:                  Lewis E. Gensler

Outtake from:              Top-Hole  1924 (S)
Lyrics:
[Note:  This is the first published song for which Ira Gershwin, discarding
"Arthur Francis" took credit.  For a time in 1924, he used his middle initial
- B for "Bruskin"]

Verse 1

[Clare]
Maybe in the face of stormy weather,
Love would depart
Out of your heart.

[Ernest]
We were simply meant to be together;
We are a team
Like cornflakes and cream!

Refrain 1

Imagine me without my you
And you without your me!
You dear, you, when near you, I'm in the clouds;
And that is no blarney
>From Killarney!
Just to know how very slow
A place this world could be,
Imagine me without my you
And you wihout your me!

Verse 2

[Ernest]
That's a sentiment I hope you cared for;
Give me a clue-
Say that you do!

[Clare]
This is something I was unprepared for;
Maybe someday
I also will say:

Refrain 2

"Imagine me without my you
And you without your me!"
For, dearie, how dreary this life would be
If you'd let some Venus
Come between us.
Like a ship without a skipper,
I'd be all at sea.
Imagine me without my you
And you without your me!

Contributed by Carlene Bogle