[1st VERSE:] Just like a melody that lingers on You seem to haunt me night and day I never realized till you had gone How much I cared about you I can't live without you [REFRAIN:] All alone I'm so all alone There is no one else but you All alone By the telephone Waiting for a ring A ting-a-ling I'm all alone ev'ry evening All alone feeling blue Wond'ring where you are And how you are And if you are All alone too [2nd VERSE:] Just for a moment you were mine, and then You seemed to vanish like a dream I long to hold you in my arms again My life is very lonely For I want you only
[1st VERSE:] Ev'ry time I see a puppy upon a summer's day A puppy dog at play My heart is filled with envy That's because My heart is yearning to pass the time away Like that pup 'Cause I'm all fed up And tho' it's wrong to be I long to be [REFRAIN:] Lazy, I want to be lazy I want to be out in the sun With no work to be done Under that awning they call the sky Stretching and yawning And let the world go drifting by I want to peep through the deep tangled wildwood Counting sheep 'til I sleep like a child would With a great big valise full Of books to read where it's peaceful While I'm killing time being lazy [2nd VERSE:] Life is short And getting shorter with each day that goes by And how the time does fly Before you know, it's over That's why I'm In such a hurry to pack my things and fly To a spot Where it's nice and hot And hear the birdies sing While I'm being
[1st VERSE:] Gone is the romance that was so divine 'Tis broken and cannot be mended You must go your way and I must go mine But now that our love dreams have ended [REFRAIN:] What'll I do When you are far away And I am blue What'll I do What'll I do When I am wond'ring who Is kissing you What'll I do What'll I do with just a photograph To tell my troubles to When I'm alone With only dreams of you That won't come true What'll I do [2nd VERSE:] Do you remember a night filled with bliss? The moonlight was softly descending Your lips and my lips were tied with a kiss A kiss with an unhappy ending
[1st VERSE:] You know the tale of the girl who was sittin' By the fire, with her kitten It's a story that was written long ago You know that she was about to retire When the glass above the fire Seemed to suddenly expire like the snow You know when the way was cleared That she disappeared Thro' the looking glass You know that her name was Alice So come along if you care We'll take you there You must prepare To be a kiddie like you were when you read Of the girl who was sittin' by the fire with her kitten In the story that was written long ago [REFRAIN:] Come along with Alice Into wonderland To the lovely palace Where they're all so grand See the funny people Strolling hand in hand Come along and pass through the looking glass Into wonderland [2nd VERSE (more or less):] Come take a peep at the queer-looking duchess With the rabbit in her clutches Which is just about as mauch as he can stand There's Tweedledum, Tweedledee, hear them prattle All about the broken rattle Tweedledee has got a battle on his hands Look here, you can see the Walrus And there's the Carpenter by his side Look there, at the little oysters And Humpty Dumpty who'd fall Down from the wall That isn't all You'll be delighted with the high-hatted man Called the mad little hatter Never mind about his patter 'Cause it really doesn't matter but it's grand
[VERSE:] A gentle voice is calling me I hear it night and day It seems to whisper tenderly You should be on your way I'm going back without a doubt To where my heart belongs The land that Jolson sings about In all his "Mammy" songs [REFRAIN:] Southland All night long your banjos ring in my ear And I can hear the call of the Southland Cornfields Seem to say it's just the time of the year Come on and hear the call of the South I'll be so happy when I open the gate To see my sweetie there who promised to wait And then when I deliver The kiss I'm gonna give 'er Trouble will drown way down in the Swanee River Southland I must go back to somebody I've missed I can't resist the call of the South
[VERSE:] Poor little immigrant feeling Oh, so sad I came from Petrograd with ev'rything I had Now that I'm over here they won't let me stay That's why I'm so unhappy today Please don't send me away [1st REFRAIN:] Don't send me back, I don't want to go back to Petrograd Don't send me back, I don't want to go back to my hometown There's millions of people on the shore Why can't you make room for just one more There's a boy that I love waiting out on the pier How can I go when my heart is over here Give me the chance that you gave all my friends from Petrograd I want to be in the land of the free and settle down That Liberty statue down the bay Is looking right at you and seems to say Oh! don't send her back It's terrible in my hometown [2nd REFRAIN:] Don't send me back, I don't want to go back to Petrograd Don't send me back, I don't want to go back to my hometown The very best people that you know Were foreigners not so long ago When they came over here they were all immigrants So were their cousins and their uncles and their aunts Give me the chance that you gave all my friends from Petrograd I want to be in the land of the free and settle down I'll promise to work the best I can I'll even wash sheets for the Ku Klux Klan Oh! don't send me back It's terrible in my hometown
[1st VERSE:] You may have a certain someone in mind Someone that some day you're hoping to find The one that you'll adore is worthwhile waiting for But the rest of the world is mating while you sit there waiting So [REFRAIN:] Don't wait too long With your castles in the sky Don't wait too long While you're waiting, time will fly Love songs are best when they're sung In the Springtime when ev'rything's young So Don't wait too long Happiness may pass you by [2nd VERSE:] So much time is wasted waiting around Just for someone who may never be found And when the years have flown, you may be all alone Looking back on the days you wasted, leaving life untasted So
[VERSE:] Here and there a loving pair will go and share A Morris chair to spoon Jack and Jill preferred a hill and there's a thrill Beneath the silv'ry moon But there's only one place For a lover's embrace [REFRAIN:] In the shade of a sheltering tree That's the place for a couple to be You will find that they always agree In the shade of a sheltering tree All the tales Adam whispered to Eve Mother Eve simply had to believe What was hers was his The reason is they happen to be In the shade of a sheltering tree
[1st VERSE:] I'm so lonely, dear Lonely, waiting here Waiting for you in the gloaming While you're far away I long for the day When you'll weary of your roaming [REFRAIN:] Listening, listening for you All alone feeling kind o' blue Listening For a knock upon the door Growing weary waiting for Your returning, yearning Missing you more and more each day Wanting you more than I can say Because there is nothing else to do Just a lonely thing Listening for you [2nd VERSE:] How I long for you When the day is through And the shades of night are falling How I miss you dear For I want you near And I seem to hear you calling
[1st VERSE:] Ev'rything went wrong And the whole day long I'd feel so blue For the longest while I forgot to smile Then I met you Now that my blue days have passed Now that I've found you at last [REFRAIN:] I'll be loving you, always With a love that's true, always When the things you've planned Need a helping hand I will understand Always, always Days may not be fair, always That's when I'll be there, always Not for just an hour Not for just a day Not for just a year But always [2nd VERSE:] Dreams will all come true Growing old with you And time will fly Caring each day more Than the day before Till spring rolls by Then when the springtme has gone Then will my love linger on
[1st VERSE:] One little kiss, a moment of bliss, then hours of deep regret One little smile, and after a while, a longing to forget One little heartache left as a token One little plaything carelessly broken [REFRAIN:] Remember the night, the night you said, "I love you" Remember Remember you vowed by all the stars above you Remember Remember we found a lonely spot And after I learned to care a lot You promised that you'd forget me not But you forgot to remember [2nd VERSE:] Into my dreams you wandered it seems, and then there came a day You loved me too, my dreams had come true, and all the world was May But soon the Maytime turned to December You had forgotten, do you remember?
[1st VERSE:] Your smiling face is an open book, young man We know that look, young man You must be oh, so happy It's just a case of love that took, young man There are quite a few who envy you [1st REFRAIN:] Lucky boy, she's a beautiful thing Lucky boy, will you give her a ring Lucky boy, we suppose in the Spring You will take your pride and joy On a train and her leather suitcase Will contain bits of satin and lace It's as plain as the nose on your face How we envy you, lucky boy [2nd VERSE:] I must confess that you pave the way for me You really say for me The things I want to tell you You'll never guess what a lucky day for me When I found that she had chosen me [2nd REFRAIN:] Lucky boy, she's a beautiful thing Lucky boy, I'm as proud as a king Lucky boy, when I give her the ring Can't you see me jump with joy With a cheer and a "whatta we care" We'll appear in a bungalow where In a year, maybe three of us there How we envy you, lucky boy
[REFRAIN:] A little bungalow an hour or so from anywhere A little cozy nest, the kind that's best for two Among the shady trees, with birds and bees, and lots of air And just enough o' ground to fool around with you Away from all the crowds we'll watch the clouds go drifting by And when the moon above presents a lovely view There'll be a room in blue, the one that you would occupy It's understood that I would occupy it too
[VERSE:] Down in the land of the cocoanuts Before the welcome season shuts A million "million dollar nuts" will be found Down in the land where the trees are tall We're asking you to pay a call And live where it is summer all the year 'round Buy a lot, any piece that we've got Will increase ev'ry season Ask us why ev'ryone wants to lie in the sun, there's a reason One little ride in a Pullman car A night and day and there you are Come on, it's time you should be Florida bound [REFRAIN:] In the lovely land of Florida Sunny Florida by the sea All the sunshine in America Is in Florida you'll agree When they're freezing up north Sneezing up north Always it's July the Fourth In the lovely land of Florida Sunny Florida by the sea
[VERSE:] Monkeys upon a tree never are very blue They never seem to be under par that is true Not like the ones you see on a bar in the zoo Monkeys upon a tree do the Monkey Doodle Doo [REFRAIN:] Oh, among the mangoes where the monkey gang goes You can see them do The little Monkey Doodle Doo Oh, a little monkey playing on his one key Gives them all the cue To do the Monkey Doodle Doo Let me take you by the hand Over to the jungle band If you're too old for dancing Get yourself a monkey gland And then let's Go, my little dearie, there's the Darwin theory Telling me and you To do the Monkey Doodle Doo
[VERSE:] I've been trav'ling far and wide Over on the other side And it's strange what a change is happ'ning all around Years ago it used to be Shaking hands across the sea Now we meet Shaking feet For this is what I found [REFRAIN:] Ev'ryone in the world is doing the Charleston They do it in London, they do it in France In Spain and Italy and in Germany they all Charleston No matter how far you roam away from home You'll find them doing that dance That certain step that was all the craze With those Lenox Avenue shieks Is being done by the Portuguese The Armenians and the Greeks Papers say that most ev'ry day there's a European who Sprained his knee in the Charleston, Charleston Because they're all doing it now