After All These Years - Original - Ethel Waters

We’ve loved each other since we went to school

But just the same, you’re acting cool

All these years, we’ve gambled in the game

To lose you now, would be a shame

Don’t say you don’t want me

Don’t say you’re going away

For if you do, it will haunt me

And you’ll be sorry some day

We’ve been through all kinds of weather

Yet we’ve been happy together

You said you’d love me forever

And I believed you were true, yes, I believed in you

I know I’m going to miss you

When some trouble appears

I’ll long to fondle and kiss you

And drive away your fears

Oh, don’t you abuse me

Please don’t refuse me

Say you don’t want to lose me

After all of these years

Oh, don’t abuse me

Please don’t refuse me

Say you can’t stand to lose me

After all of these years