All The Things You Are - melodic variations?

BRIDGE TO "ALL THE THINGS YOU ARE"

ALL THE THINGS YOU ARE        Having heard, over the years,  a plethora of melodic variations on the bridge ( B section ) to Jerome Kern's "All the Things You Are", probably the most played jazz standard of all time, other than"All Blues",  I decided to research the archives to see what the melody REALLY is  on this tune.   It turns out, to my surprise, there is almost no argument what the melody is.  After finding the tune in a substantial number of fake books and listening to a bunch of old recordings,  I only found one variation where, in bar 7 above, the 2nd and 3rd notes were up a half-step.  I have, however,  heard people sing and play this bridge 5 or 6 different ways but the literature is in agreement that the tune is as you see above.  I think respecting the original melody, in this case, is important  because it is a very clever sequence of tension-release lower neighbor tones is lost when the melody is changed - most of the variations I've heard just simplify the melody to the point that it is no longer interesting.   It's maybe not as important as, say, ...world peace.    So, case closed.