JUDY GARLAND: ’BUT NOT FOR ME’ FROM ’GIRL CRAZY’.

This performance of ’But Not For Me’ by Judy Garland is in the film ’Girl Crazy’ with Mickey Rooney, 1943. ’Girl Crazy’ was the last of the Mickey/Judy “backyard musicals“. Previous Mickey/Judy musicals of this genre included ’Babes in Arms’(1939), ’Strike Up the Band’ (1940) and ’Babes on Broadway’(1941). ’But Not For Me’was written by Ira Gershwin, music by George Gershwin in 1930. Old Man Sunshine listen, you Never tell me Dreams Come True Just try it and I’ll start a riot. Beatrice Fairfax don’t you dare Ever tell me he will care I’m certain it’s the final curtain. I never want to hear From any cheerful Polyannas, Who tell you fate supplies a mate It’s all bananas. They’re writing songs of love, But not for me A lucky star’s above, But not for me With love to lead the way, I’ve found more skies of gray Than any Russian p