From the 1923 “Music Box Revue”
words and music by Irving Berlin
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- ‘Round the world I’ve roamed
As a roaming Romeo
But my roaming Romeo days are done
My heart used to beat for a dozen girls or so
Now my heart is beating for only one
Chorus
One girl down in my heart
And we never will part
One girl with a certain something
Won me from the very start
Because there’s one girl who will agree
To grow older with me
I mean to go thro’ life
With sharing every joy and strife
With just one girl
- Every fellow has his romances
I’ve had mine
Sweet romances that I must now forget
I must say goodbye to them all
But Auld Lang Syne
Gives them each a memory that lingers yet
Sung here by Laurence Rubenstein: