The You and Me That Used to Be - Jimmy Rushing, Count Basie

Our love was something more than just a like love

We never thought of it as fly by night love

We lost a lovely inspiration

For something called sophistication

Have we forgotten that a distant starlight

Is far more lovely than a cocktail bar light

These are unromantic cold days

Don’t you remember the old days

We walked together in April rains

The city streets or country lanes

Have you forgotten the you and me that used to be

We’d see a movie or do the zoo

Or window shop the avenue

Don’t you remember the you and me that used to be

We loved to often prime this ragtime tune

Always had time to see the moon

We read the funnies every sunday noon, always together

Have you forgotten the fun we used the crazy things we used to do

What has become of the you and me that used to be

We loved to often prime this ragtime tune

Always had time to see the moon

We read the funnies every sunday noon, always together

Have you forgotten the fun we used those crazy things we used to do

What has become of the you and me that used to be