From the Marx Brothers musical “Home Again,” 1915
Words and music by Leonard Marx
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
1. You ask me why I feel so blue
You ask me why I cry
You ask me why I look so sad
You ask me why I sigh
You made me love you more and more
And now that we must part
The sunshine leaves, the sorrow comes
Into my breaking heart
REFRAIN
Don’t say goodbye, dear
Please don’t go away
I feel so lonesome
I want you to stay, my dearie
When I am lonely
That’s the tune I sigh
I want you only
So do not say goodbye
2. I knew that sometime you would go
And leave me all alone
I hoped in vain that you might stay
And never, never roam
And though you promise to return
I know that you’ll not find
The broken heart, the shattered life
That you once left behind