From the show “Nifties”, 1923
Words by B. G. De Sylva
Music by George Gershwin
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
There are twenty four hours in the day
I live but four of them
I lose a score of them
Through the twenty I’m bluer than a jay
I sit and rock a while
And watch the clock a while
And then at seven bells
I’m on my merry way
Refrain
At half past seven each evening
I knock at Sweetie’s front door
And then the world with kisses burning
Starts turning once more
At half past ‘leven there’s sorrow
For I must part from her then
To wait and dream of the morrow
When it’s half past seven again
Sung here by Laurence Rubenstein: