I Dont Know Why I Just Do
I Guess I'll Have To Change My Plan
Tony Bennett
Words by Howard Dietz and Music by Arthur Schwartz
From his "Strike Up the Band" LP with Count Basie: Roulette 25231
This version did not chart but
In 1930 two versions did chart: Rudy Vallee at # 2 and Guy Lombardo at # 11.
Sung in the revue "The Little Show" by Clifton Webb
Sung in the 1953 film "The Band Wagon" by Fred Astaire and Jack Buchanan
I guess I'll have to change my plan
I should have realized there'd be another man
I overlooked that point completely
Until the big affair began
Before I knew where I was at
I found myself upon the shelf and that was that
I tried to reach the moon but when I got there
All that I could get was the air
My feet are back upon the ground
I lost the one girl I'd found
Before I knew where I was at
I found myself upon the shelf and that was that
I tried to reach the moon but when I got there
All that I could get was the air
My feet are back upon the ground
I lost the one girl
The one girl I'd found
We recommend: In Darkness
Lamenting in protest
To visible police
Presence sponsored fear
Battalions of riot police
With rubber bullet kisses
Baton courtesy
Service with a smile
Beyond the Staples Center you can see America
With its tired, poor, avenging disgrace
Peaceful, loving youth against the brutality
Of plastic existance
Pushing little children
With their fully automatics
They like to push the weak around
Pushing little children
With their fully automatics
They like to push the weak around
A rush of words
pleading to dispe