A song from “Jumbo”, 1935.
Words by Lorenz Hart.
Music by Richard Rodgers.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
Sit there and count your fingers
What can you do?
Old girl, you’re through
Sit there count your little fingers
Unhappy little girl blue
Sit there and count the raindrops
Falling on you
It’s time, you knew
All you can ever count on is the raindrops
That fall on little girl blue
No use, old girl
You might as well surrender
Your hope is getting slender and slender
Why won’t somebody send a tender blue boy
To cheer up little girl blue?
Trio
When I was very young
The world was younger than I
As merry as a carousel
The circus tent was strung
With every star in the sky
Above the ring I loved so well
Now the young world has grown old
Gone are the tinsel and gold