From the “MUSIC BOX REVUE,” 1925.
Words and Music by Irving Berlin.
Cover Art by R.S. Rosebud-Rosenbaum Studio.
Copyright ©15 Dec 1924.
Sheet Music from the collection of Michael Deatz.
The sheet music:
Yellow sheet music popular cover:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- I’m so lonely, dear
Lonely, waiting here
Waiting for you in the gloaming
While you’re far away
I long for the day
When you’ll weary of your roaming
Chorus
Listening, listening for you
All alone feeling kind o’ blue
Listening for a knock upon the door
Growing weary waiting for your returning
Yearning, missing you more and more each day
Wanting you more than I can say
Listening because there is nothing else to do
Just a lonely thing, listening for you
- How I long for you
When the day is through
And the shades of night are falling
How I miss you, dear
For I want you near
And I seem to hear you calling
Sung here by Laurence Rubenstein: