Alan Jay Lerner
Playwright/lyricist Alan Jay Lerner
was born into a wealthy New York
City retailing family.
His professional association with
Frederick Loewe started in 1942
when they teamed up to write
"Life of the Party". Their first
Broadway success was the 1947
musical fantasy "Brigadoon" which
was translated to film in 1954.
Lerner adapted the work for the
screen and earned two Oscars as the
screenplay writer for "An American
In Paris" (1951) and "Gigi" (1958),
and a Grammy for "On a Clear Day
You Can See Forever". Lerner and
Loewe parted company in 1962
following the success of "Camelot".
Lerner's last musical, "Dance a
Little Closer", was written with
Charles Strouse in 1983.
Frederick Loewe
His first collaboration with Alan Jay Lerner was a 1942 musical adaptation of the farce "The Patsy", called "The Life of the Party"; it was written for a Detroit stock theatre company. He has won three Tony Awards, all in collaboration with Alan Jay Lerner: two in 1957 for "My Fair Lady," as Best Composer and for his music as part of a Best Musical win; and one in 1974 for Gigi" as Best Score, his music with Lerner's lyrics.

There But For You Go I

Words & music by:-
Alan Jay Lerner & Frederick Loewe

This is hard to say, but as I wandered through the lea,
I felt for just a fleeting moment that
I suddenly was free of being lonely.
Then I closed my eyes and saw the very reason why.

I saw a man with his head bowed low.
His heart had no place to go.
I looked and I thought to myself with a sigh:
There but for you go I.
I saw a man walking by the sea,
Alone with the tide was he.
I looked and I thought as I watched him go by:
There but for you go I.

Lonely men around me, trying not to cry,
Till the day you found me, there among them was I.

I saw a man who had never known
A love that was all his own.
I thought as I thanked all the stars in the sky:
There, but for you, go I.

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