A 1923 popular song.
Words and music by Howard Johnson, Leo Wood & Irving Bibo.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- Nights are long and life’s all wrong
Since you went away
I don’t know just what to do
I don’t feel so blue until the end of the day
In my lonely room, I find only gloom
Chorus
Ev’ry night I cry myself to sleep over you
Weep over you
Gee, but I’m blue
Ev’ry night when twilight shadows
Creep into view
Like a little baby
I need some love that is true
Darkness appears, nights seem like years
I wake up in the morning
And my pillow is wet with tears
Ev’ry night I pray that some day
You’ll want me, too
Then I cry myself to sleep over you
- Ev’ry night I used to dream
Such wonderful dreams
Sweetheart, when I’d think of you
But it’s diff’rent now
My dreams are empty it seems
Every since the day that you went away
Sung here by Vancha March: