I Was A Little Too Lonely
(And You Were A Little Too Late)
1956



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Highlights
  • Sung by Nat King Cole in the 1957, Universal International Pictures film Istanbul, starring Errol Flynn, Cornell Borchers and John Bentley.
  • A suspected diamond smuggler returns to Istanbul and finds the lady love he thought was dead...or does he?



Recording History
Pearl Bailey, I Was A Little Too Lonely (and You Were A Little Too Late / I'd Rather Be Rich, Decca Records, 31667, 1959
Gogi Grant
Todd Londagin
Nat King Cole and His Trio, The Complete After Midnight Sessions, Capitol Records, #CDP 7 48328 2
John Paul Pizzarelli, Jr.
Lyrics
You promised me you'd come back
I promised to wait;
But I was a little too lonely,
And you were a little too late!

Too many long nights alone,
Not even a date;
So I got a little too lonely,
And now you're a little too late.

You never would write, you never would call;
While I had the blues you were havin' a ball;
You thought that I'd be here to run to you,
Now I'm gonna do to you as I was done to!

Too bad about you, my friend
It could have been great;
But I was a little too lonely,
And you were a little too late.

You never would write, you never would call;
While I had the blues you were havin' a ball;
You thought that I'd be here to run to you,
Now I'm gonna do to you as I was done to!

Too bad about you, my friend
It could have been great;
But I was a little too lonely,
And you were a little too late.
I WAS A LITTLE TOO LONELY (AND YOU WERE A LITTLE TOO LATE) Northern Music Corporation, 1956. Music and Words by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans (Commercial Version)