From the musical “Sweet and Low”, 1930.
Words by Mort Dixon and Billy Rose.
Music by Harry Warren.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- Love found a pasture warm and fertile
When love came wand’ring to my heart
Here was something new
Oh how close we grew
Life was all mistletoe and myrtle
I never dream’d we’d ever part
Then one bitter dawn
Sweet romance was gone
Now with people sympathizing
It’s so hard to carry on
Chorus
The story’s over, he’s gone away
But I’ll be tortured day after day
By friends with good intentions who say
He’s not worth your tears
I know they think they’re comforting me
But how mistaken people can be
Who say there’s other fish in the sea
He’s not worth your tears
They never bother an old weeping willow
They leave it drooping there
So if I want to confide in my pillow
Why should strangers care
My heart is filled with all it can hold
A good long cry might leave it consoled
And that’s why I don’t want to be told
He’s not worth your tears
- I sit in silent meditation
Weary and trying to forget
But the fact is plain
That it’s all in vain
Tears are my only consolation
Knowing that I adore him yet
So if I must cry
Who will question why
Let the world leave me with mem’ries
Let the world go drifting by
Sung here by Vancha March: