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I Could Write a Book
Anita O'Day

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I never learned to spell

At least not well.


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I never learned to count

A great amount.


But my busy mind is burning

To use what learning I've got.


I won't waste any time,

I'll strike while the iron is hot.


If they asked me, I could write a book

About the way you walk and whisper and look.


I could write a preface on how we met

So the world would never forget.


And the simple secret of the plot

Is just to tell them that I love you a lot.


Then the world discovers as my book ends

How to make two lovers a friend.


Use to hate to go to school

I never cracked a book;

I played the hook.


Never answered any mail;

To write I used to think was wasting ink.


It was never my endeavor

To be too clever and smart.


Now I suddenly feel

A longing to write in my heart.


If they asked me, I could write a book

About the way you walk and whisper and look.


I could write a preface on how we met

So the world would never forget.


And the simple secret of the plot

Is just to tell them that I love you a lot.


Then the world discovers as my book ends

How to make two lovers a friend.


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  Bolero At the Savoy   Deliver Me To Tennessee   I Take To You   Just a Little Bit South of North Carolina   Let's Get Away From It All   Murder, He Says   Pass the Bounce   Thanks For the Boogie Ride   Two In Love   'S Wonderful   'S Wonderful   'S Wonderful [DVD]   'S Wonderful\/They Can't Take That Away from Me   "Murder" He Says   "Murder" He Says   "Murder", Says He   (Did You Ever Get) That Feeling in the Moonlight?   (Did You Ever Get) That Feeling In the Moonlight?   A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square   A Song For You   A Blues Serenade   A Foggy Day in London Town   A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square   A Song for You   A Song for You [Live]   A Woman Alone with the Blues   After You've Gone   Ain't Misbehavin   Ain't Misbehavin'   Air Force Ones   Air Force Ones [Multimedia Track]   All of Me   Am I Blue   And Her Tears Flowed Like Wine   And Her Tears Flowed Like Wine   Angel Eyes   As Long As I Live   As Long as There's Music   As Long as There's Music   Barrel House Bessie From Basin Street   Beautiful Love   Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea   Bewitched Bothered and Bewildered   Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered   Beyond the Blue Horizon   Black Coffee   Black Moonlight   Blue Skies   Body & Soul   Body and Soul   Bolera at the Savoy   Bolero At the Savoy   Boogie Blues   Boogie Blues   But Not for Me   But Not for Me [Live][*]   Can't We Be Friends?   Can't We Be Friends?   Chicago   Chickery Chick   Come Rain or Come Shine   Crazy He Calls Me   Didn't We   Do Nothin' Till You Hear from Me   Do Nothin’ Till You Hear Me   Do Nothing Till You Hear From Me   Don't Be That Way   Don't Explain   Don't Explain   Drummin' Man   Drummin' Man   Early Autumn   Early Autumn   Easy Come, Easy Go   Easy Living   Easy Living   Easy To Love   Emily   Exactly Like You   Falling In Love With Love   Falling in Love With Love/Love for Sale   Fightin' Doug Macarthur   Fine and Dandy   Fly Me to the Moon   Fools Rush In   Frankie and Johnny   Frankie and Johnny   Frenesi   From This Moment On   From This Moment On [*]   Gee Baby, Ain't I Good to You   Get Out of Town   Gimme a Pigfoot and a Bottle of Beer   Give Me the Simple Life   God Bless the Child   Goodbye   Got a Lot of Livin' to Do   Got a Lot of Livin' to Do   Green Dolphin Street   Harlem On Parade   Have You Met Miss Jones   Have You Met Miss Jones?   Have You Met Miss Jones?   Have You Met Miss Jones? 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