A popular song from 1932.
Words and music by Irving Berlin.
Additional words by Edward Montagu.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- You can’t stop people from talking
And they’re talking, my dear
And the things they’re saying
Fill my heart with fear
Now I could never believe them
When they say you’re untrue
I know that they’re mistaken
Still, I want to hear it from you
Chorus
Say it isn’t so, say it isn’t so
Ev’ryone is saying you don’t love me
Say it isn’t so
Ev’rywhere I go, ev’ryone I know
Whispers that you’re growing tired of me
Say it isn’t so
People say that you found somebody new
And it won’t be long before you leave me
Say it isn’t true
Say that ev’rything is still okay
That’s all I want to know
And what they’re saying
Say it isn’t so
- Oh, sweetheart, why are you silent?
There’s so much to deny
Stop their idle chatter
Give them all the lie
You say some day you’ll be calling
But you must tell me when
Dear, don’t you know they’re saying?
That I’ll never see you again?
Sung here by Laurence Rubenstein: