From the musical “Park Avenue”, 1946 Words by Ira Gershwin Music by Arthur Schwartz
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Refrain:
I don’t know how I won you
For the life of me
Can’t understand how you could care to care
I can’t get over it yet
Of all the many I’d met
You were so unlike
Not anyone like you anywhere
How did I ever win you
For the wife of me?
How did the likes of you and me combine?
I look at you and then
I pinch myself again to realize that
For the life of me you’re mine
Refrain:
I don’t know how I won you
For the life of me
I only thought I’d worship from afar
I can’t get over it yet
The very first time we met
I had no inkling my star was twinkling
But here we are
Just tell the world from now on
“Here’s the wife of me”
That’s all I ask and all you have to do
Historians will agree in my biography
The only reason
For the life of me is you