The Gal That Got Away
Record by Frank Sinatra


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Debut 
  
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 1952

 

21

Capital
   
 

The night is bitter
The stars have lost their glitter
The winds grow colder
Suddenly you're older
And all because of the gal that got away

No more her eager call
The writing  on the wall
The dreams you dreamed
Have all gone astray

The gal that won you
She's run off and undone you
That great beginning
Has seen its final inning
Don't know what happened
It's all a crazy game

No more then all time thrill
For you have been  though the mill
And never a new love
Will be the same

Good riddance good-bye
Every trick of hers you are on to
But fools will be fools
And where's she gone to?  

The road gets rougher
It's lonelier and it's tougher
With hope you burn up
Tomorrow   she may turn up
There just no let up
Live long night  and day

Ever since, this world began
There is nothin' sadder than
A long lost loser
Lookin' for the gal that got away

Come back
Won't you come back
the gal that got away