From the 1940 musical “American Jubilee”
Words by Oscar Hammerstein IInd
Music by Arthur Schwartz
The sheet music:
Lyrics
When you’re far away
Every lonely day that I spend
I pretend you are near
I can hear your voice
And the things you’d say
Just as if I had you here
Whispering in my ear
Refrain:
How can I ever be alone
When you never leave my heart?
How can I call a dream my own
When you always share a part?
All that’s mine is yours, and yours forever
All the things I feel, and say, and do
How can I ever be alone
When the world I live in is you?