From the show “Nobody Home”, 1915
Words by Herbert Reynolds
Music by Jerome Kern
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- Dearie, when I met you
You had on a pretty hat
I would not have known you
If it hadn’t been for that
For the wind so kindly blew it
Right toward your feet
Isn’t it peculiar, dear
How sweethearts sometimes meet
Chorus
If it hadn’t happened as it did, my dearie
If I hadn’t met you when my heart was weary
Then there might have been
Another little girl to kiss you
When you went away
Another little girl to miss you
Quite a different little girl you might have had
To make you glad whenever you felt sad
Oh, dearie, if it had not happened as it all did
Wouldn’t it have been too bad?
- If I hadn’t quite forgot
That pretty hat to pin
We might still be waiting
For our romance to begin
Someone else might easily
Have found it, who can say?
And maybe with that someone
You’d be in love today