The Great American Songbook is full of beautiful love songs, but there's a number of tunes for the other, harsher side of love: heartbreak. Here are our top 10 breakup songs. Start out with a touch of denial from Nina, and then let Sammy Davis, Jr. send you dreaming...
10. I Get Along Without You Very Well – Nina Simone
"What a fool am I / To think my aching heart could kid the moon"
9. Deep In A Dream – Sammy Davis Jr.
"You come to my arms, may this bliss never end / For we love anew just as we used to do"
8. Ruby, My Dear (Dear Ruby) – Carmen McRae
"Your love has flown / You're all alone"
7. Just Friends – Chet Baker
"We loved, we laughed, we cried, suddenly love died"
6. You’ve Changed – Billie Holiday
"You've forgotten the words 'I love you'"
5. The One I Love (Belongs To Somebody Else) – Frank Sinatra, The Pied Pipers, Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra
"And even when you have your arms around her, papa you know / her thoughts are for somebody else"
4. Cry Me A River – Bjork
"You drove me, nearly drove me, out of my head / While you never shed a tear"
3. Was That The Human Thing To Do – The Boswell Sisters
"Never thought that anyone in their right mind / Could ever treat another human so unkind"
2. I Gotta Right To Sing The Blues – Louis Armstrong
"Soon that deep blue sea / Will be callin' me"
1. Without You – Harry Nilsson
"I can't live, if living is without you"