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Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra - I Can't Pretend (Vocalion Records 1936)

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Channel: RoundMidnightTV · 2012 · Music

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" I Can't Pretend" is a 1936 song by Charles Tobias & Paul Rusincky.

Billie's accompanied by Bunny Berigan (trumpet), Irving Fazola (clarinet), Clyde Hart (piano), Dick McDonough (guitar), Artie Bernstein (bass) and Cozy Cole (drums).  Recorded in New York City, September 29, 1936. (Vocalion Records)

I can't pretend
 I'm sorry we're apart
 I can't pretend
 I just can't fool my heart
 Though I make mine
 My friends all seem to realize
 Their smiles, that look in my eye

 I can't pretend
 I simply can't be gay
 For in the end
 My tears give me away
 Without you dear
 I live a lie
 I can't defend
 I love you
 And I can't pretend

 I can't pretend
 I simply can't be gay
 For in the end
 My tears give me away
 Without you dear
 I live a lie
 I can't defend
 I love you
 And I can't pretend

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