There But for You Go I

"There But for You Go I" is a song Frank Sinatra recorded under Columbia Records. It was released in 1947 with his rendition of another Lerner/Loewe song, "Almost Like Being in Love." The A-side charted at #20, but this song did not chart at all.

Lyrics
This is hard to say, but as I wandered though the lea, I felt for just a fleeting moment that I suddenly was free Of being lonely that I close 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.