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T-914.508.924-3 ASCAP, ISWC
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Arthur Schwartz wrote this work in about 1920, when he was working at a summer camp in the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York. The original lyrics were by Lorenz Hart who was also working at the camp. Hart's lyrics were as follows:
I love to lie awake in bed
Right after taps I pull the flaps above my head
And watch the stars upon my pillow
Oh what I light the moonbeams shed
I feel so happy I could cry
And tears are born right in the corner of my eye
To be at home with Ma was never like this
I could live forever like this
I love to lie awake a while
And go to sleep with a smile
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i I Guess I'll Have to Change My Plan Paul Sikivie (Paul Sikivie) September 1, 2020 Unverified
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 PRF First live performance on April 30, 1929
 REC 1932 First recording on August 11, 1932
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I Guess I'll Have to Change My Plan Layton & Johnstone 1932 Unverified
i I Guess I'll Have to Change My Plan Carroll Gibbons 1932 Unverified
listen on Internet Archive   September 1946
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i I Guess I'll Have to Change My Plan Tony Osborne 1964 Unverified
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  1995 Released more than 10 years after its recording
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  November 1999
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i I Guess I'll Have to Change My Plan Taxi Horns 2004 Unverified
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  January 31, 2012
  May 5, 2015
  October 30, 2015
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I Guess I'll Have to Change My Plan Alex Mendham and His Orchestra 2020 Unverified
  March 12, 2021
i I Guess I'll Have to Change My Plans Michel Pastre, Louis Mazetier, Guillaume Nouaux (Michel Pastre, Louis Mazetier, Guillaume Nouaux) 2023 Unverified