From the musical “The Gingham Girl,” 1922
Words by Neville Fleeson
Music by Albert Von Tilzer
The sheet music:
Lyrics
It seems that everybody has the blues up-to-date
We simply have refused to worry
About the way everything is going
Just because we are in the knowing
Everybody says that money’s getting easier
But that’s a joke
Tips amount to nothing, everybody’s bluffing
Seems they all are broke
Refrain:
We’ve got the “Business is bad
Not a cent to be had again blues
Nobody’s spending a dime
All they spend is their time and we lose
As a rule we are never broken hearted
For they say, “A fool and his money soon is parted”
If that is true, all we can say
“Fools don’t come to this café”
When we took this position, our family physician
Said that we should
For he thought the change up here would do us good
It turned out to be the reverse
Every day we’re feeling worse
We’ve got the “Business is bad
Not a cent to be had again blues, some blues