Released: June 22, 1973
Songwriter: Lorenz Hart Richard Rodgers
Producer: Gil Askey
When I was very young
The world was younger than I
As merry as a carousel
The circustent was strong
With every star in the sky
Above the ring I loved so well
Now the young world has grown old
Gone are the tinsle and gold
Sit there and count your fingers
What can you do?
Oh girl you're through
All you can count on are your fingers
Unlucky little girl blue
Sit there and count the raindrops
Falling on you
It's time you knew
All you can count on are the raindrops
That fall on little girl blue
No use oh girl
You may as well surrender
Your hope is getting slender
Why won't somebody send a tender blue boy
To cheer little girl blue
The world was younger than I
As merry as a carousel
The circustent was strong
With every star in the sky
Above the ring I loved so well
Now the young world has grown old
Gone are the tinsle and gold
Sit there and count your fingers
What can you do?
Oh girl you're through
All you can count on are your fingers
Unlucky little girl blue
Sit there and count the raindrops
Falling on you
It's time you knew
All you can count on are the raindrops
That fall on little girl blue
No use oh girl
You may as well surrender
Your hope is getting slender
Why won't somebody send a tender blue boy
To cheer little girl blue
more tracks from the album
Stolen Moments: The Lady Sings... Jazz and Blues
- Good Morning Heartache
- Little Girl Blue
- Fine and Mellow (Reprise)
- Mean to Me
- God Bless the Child
- Strange Fruit
- My Man
- You’ve Changed
- Gimme a Pigfoot (And a Bottle of Beer)
- Lover Man (Oh Where Can You Be)
- Love Is Here to Stay
- What a Little Moonlight Can Do
- Fine and Mellow
- Don’t Explain
- I Cried for You
- Them There Eyes
- The Man I Love
- ’T Ain’t Nobody’s Bizness If I Do
- There’s a Small Hotel
From the albums
- Touch Me in the Morning (1973)
- Stolen Moments: The Lady Sings... Jazz and Blues (1993)
- Blue (2006)
Diana Ross popular songs
- I’m Coming Out
- Upside Down
- Ain’t No Mountain High Enough
- Ease on Down the Road #1
- It’s Your Move
- If We Hold On Together
- The Boss
- Missing You
- Theme from Mahogany (Do You Know Where You’re Going To)
- When You Tell Me That You Love Me
- Chain Reaction
- He Lives in You
- Love Hangover
- Touch Me in the Morning
- Do You Know Where Youre Going To
- It’s My House
- I’m Still Waiting
- A Brand New Day
- Always and Forever
- If You’re Not Gonna Love Me Right (Crenshaw Records version)
- Once in the Morning
- That’s How You Start Over
- Love Me (Japanese quadraphonic edition)
- Ain’t Nothin’ But a Maybe