Isn't It A Pity - Mel Torme, Cleo Laine

Why did I wander

Here and there and yonder

Wasting precious time

For no reason or rhyme?

Isn’t it a pity!

Isn’t it a crime!

My journey’s ended

Everything is splendid

Meeting you today

Has given me a wonderful idea

Here I stay

It’s a funny thing

I look at you

I get a thrill I never knew

Isn’t it a pity we never met before!

Here we are at last

It’s like a dream

The two of us, a perfect team

Isn’t it a pity we never met before!

Imagine all the lonely years we’ve wasted

You with the neighbours

I at silly labours

What joys untasted

You readin' Heine

You somewhere in China

Happiest of gals guys I’m sure to be

If you will always say to me

Isn’t a pity we never ever met before!

Imagine all the lonely years we’ve wasted

Fishing for salmon

Losing at backgammon

What joys untasted

My nights were sour

Spent with Schopenhauer

Let’s forget the past, let’s both agree

That I’m for you and you’re for me

And it’s an awful pity we never, never, never, ever met before!

Pity!