If You Can Take It (Take It From Me)

Written for: "Cowboy From Brooklyn" (1938)
Lyric: Johnny Mercer
Music: Harry Warren
Year: 1938
Original publisher: Remick Music Corp.

Verse:

Ask any lover, and you'll discover
Love isn't always sunshine and spice;
Read any poet, his lines will show it,
That all your smiles can turn to tears before you know it;
But still, I hope you think it's worth the price.

Chorus:

The same old sighs, the moon above,
This funny bus'ness called love;
If you can take it,
Take it from me.
Those little words that go amiss,
But always end in a kiss;
If you can take it,
Please take it from me.
If your heart can stand to stop its beat,
Taking the bitter and taking the sweet;
If it wants to ache like mine,
Won't you come in? The water is fine!
And all these nights of wond'ring when
I'll ever see you again,
If I can take it so willingly,
Then you can take it;
So, take it from me.