a popular song from 1914
words by Earle C. Jones
music by Richard A. Whiting and Charles L. Cooke
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
1. I’m in love with the sweetest man what am
My little Sam
He done won my heart in Alabama
My lovie lamb
Lawdy! he could woo if he wanted to
He could bill and coo like the lovebirds do
But I’ ‘shamed to say he flew away today
Chorus:
Oh! I wonder where my lovin’ man has gone?
Maybe Kansas City where the girls are pretty
He done left my new gold watch in pawn
Had an Elgin movement with a late improvement
Oh, his lovin’ eyes sure could hypnotize
I’m sighin’ for, I’m dying’ for that man
Lawd I’ve got the blues but I’m too darn mean to cry
Just a little weepin’, when I fall to sleepin’
He’ll be limping homeward bye and bye
Once he got a bullet when he stole a pullet
Tell me have you seen handsome Sammy Green?
I wonder where my lovin’ man has gone?
2. Sam would kiss like a lovin’ kisser should
And Sammy could
When I brag this way I rap on wood
But they were good
But he went away on the first of May
And I’m turning gray, with the rent to pay
But I hope that he’ll elope right back to me