A popular song from 1919
Words and music by Chas. Warfield and Clarence Williams
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by Denese Coulbeck:
Lyrics
- I’ve got the blues, I feel so lonely
I’d give the world if I could only
Make you understand, it surely would be grand
I’m goin’ to telegraph you, baby
Ask you won’t you please come home
‘Cause when you’re gone I worry all day long
Chorus
Baby, won’t you please come home
‘Cause your mamma’s all alone
I have tried in vain, nevermore to call your name
When you left you broke my heart
‘Cause I never thought we’d part
Every hour in the day you will hear me say
Baby, won’t you please come home
- If I could only find my baby
Straight to the preacher we would maybe
Happy I would be, my little babe and me
I never knew how much I loved you
Till you went away one day
What made you leave I just can’t hardly say
Sung here by Laurence Rubenstein: