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You Don't Know What Love Is (Raye​/​DePaul)

from Jealous Of The Moon by Scott Ainslie

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A perfect jazz ballad that sits close to the blues, written by tin pan alley authors Don Raye and Gene DePaul in 1941. Third cut on my first solo CD, Jealous of the Moon.

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You Don't Know What Love Is (Don Raye/Gene DePaul)

You don’t know what love is until you’ve learned the meaning of the Blues.
Until you’ve loved a love you had to lose:
You don’t know what love is.

You don’t know how lips burn 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 a lost heart fears the thought of reminiscing?
And lips that taste of tears lose their taste for kissing.

You don’t know how hearts ache for love that cannot live yet never dies,
Until you’ve faced each dawn with sleepless eyes:
You don’t know what love is.
You don’t know what love is.

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from Jealous Of The Moon, track released September 22, 1995
Scott Ainslie, acoustic guitar and voice
Michael Mark, Electric bass

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Scott Ainslie Brattleboro, Vermont

A long history with older black blues and gospel players in the mid-South marks Ainslie's work deeply. He transcribed all of Robert Johnson's recorded songs for "Robert Johnson/At The Crossroads" (Hal Leonard, 1992) and has a teaching DVD on Johnson's music. A fine songwriter with a social conscience and a belief in the power of music to move and inspire, Ainslie's voice is a great force for good! ... more

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