WRITERS Charles L. Seitz, Joe Lewis, Elmar Rader I thought I had seen pretty girls in my time that was before I met you I never saw one that I wanted for mine that was before I met you I thought I was swinging the world by the tail I thought I could never be blue I thought I'd been kissed and I thought I'd been loved but that was before I met you I thought I'd stay single and always be free but that was before I met you And I said that no sweet thing could ever hold me but that was before I met you I thought I was swinging... I thought I was swinging... That was before I met you