You Don't Know What Love Is

A popular ballad often heard with a strong bluesy feel to it's solos

Composed by Gene De Paul, Don Raye
Year 1941
Length 32 bars
Time 4/4
Form AABA
Style Ballad
Common Key F-

Chords

Chord chart for the jazz standard You Don't Know What Love Is

Lyrics

You don't know what love is
Until you've learned the meaning of the blues
Until you've loved a love you've had to lose
You don't know what love is

You don't know how lips hurt
Until you've kissed and had to pay the cost
Until you've flipped your heart and you have lost
You don't know what love is

Do you know how lost heart feels
At the thought of reminiscing?
And how lips that taste of tears
Lose their taste for kissing

You don't know how hearts burn
For love that cannot live yet never dies
Until you've faced each dawn with sleepless eyes
You don't know what love is

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