A popular song from 1929
Words and music by Harold Walker
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
List to my song, won’t keep you long
I’m feeling Oh, so blue
I can’t feel glad, I feel so sad
This tale I’ll tell to you
Chorus:
My girl’s gone wrong now
And only me knows why
She sends me crazy
And only me knows why
I met her at a party
Sat next to her at tea
I was just the flower
She was the bumble bee
But oh! how she stung me
And only me knows why
Chorus:
I got to know her
And only me knows why
She is some goer
And only me knows why
She said she was a widow
It was a pack of lies
She’d had as many sweethearts
As a tom-cat has wives
She was no lady
And only me knows why
Chorus:
She used to please me
And only me knows why
And Oh! how she’d tease me
And only me knows why
I suspected she was wicked
I hadn’t far to seek
She used to wear silk stockings
On fifteen bob a week
She was no lady
And only me knows why
Chorus:
She is well dressed now
And only me knows why
She drinks the best now
And only me knows why
The first time that I met her
She took me out to dine
She started off with lemonade
Finished up on wine
She was no lady
And only me knows why
Chorus:
I’m so unhappy now
And only me knows why
I feel so lonely
And only me knows why
I bought that girlie diamonds
And a nice new motor car
Then a sailor pinched her off me
And you know what sailors are
She is no lady
And only me knows why
Chorus:
She used to hug me
And only me knows why
She said she loved me
And only me knows why
She spent all my money
Then left me all alone
Picked me just as clean
As any doggie picks a bone
Now she’s in Pentridge
And only me knows why
Sung by Laurence Rubenstein: