They Can’t Take That Away From Me (1937)
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(w) Ira Gershwin (m) George Gershwin (I) Film: Shall We Dance by Fred Astaire (P) Fred Astaire (CR) Ozzie Nelson and his Orchestra (CR) Tommy Dorsey and his Orchestra (CR) Billie Holiday. Ella Fitzgerald with Intro 1 Most popular recording by Frank Sinatra with Intro 2.
Intro 1: Our romance won’t end on a sorrowful note
Though by tomorrow you’re gone
The song is ended, but as the songwriter wrote
the melody lingers on
They may take it from me; I’ll miss your fond caress
But though they take you from me, I’ll still possess…

Intro 2: There are many, many crazy things
That will keep me loving you
And with your permission, may I list a few…

The way you wear your hat, the way you sip your tea
The memory of all that
No, no they can’t take that away from me
The way your smile just beams, the way you sing off key
The way you haunt my dreams
No, no they can’t take that away from me

We may never, never meet again on that bumpy road to love
Still I’ll always, always keep the memory of
The way you hold your knife, the way we danced till three
The way you changed my life
No, no they can’t take that away from me
No they can’t take that away from me