From the “Music Box Revue”, 1921
Words and music by Irving Berlin
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
Some folks who don’t know
What to do with their evenings
Up till dawn with their dress clothes on
They will roam
Dancing ’round in a Cabaret
Homeward bound at the break of day
I have found that it doesn’t pay
So I’d rather stay at home
Chorus
With my little book of poetry
Let me while the hours away
Reading the poets of olden times
Meeting the girls they dressed up in rhymes
I will never ask for company
When the skies of blue turn to gray
Mister Kipling and Poe
Are the best friends I know
At the end of a weary day
Sung here by Laurence Rubenstein: