Somebody Else Is Taking My Place

a 1937 popular song
words and music by Dick Howard, Bob Ellsworth, and Russ Morgan


The sheet music:


Accompaniment:


Lyrics

  1. Sweet was the start of the story
    Of love with an unhappy end
    We had a moment of glory
    And now you’re not even a friend, for

Chorus
Somebody else is taking my place
Somebody else now shares your embrace
While I am trying
To keep from crying
You go around with a smile on your face
Little you care for vows that you made
Little you care how much I have paid
My heart is aching
My heart is breaking
For somebody’s taking my place

  1. My love’s a fire still burning
    And your love a rose that is gone
    My heart forever is yearning
    But your heart just laughs and goes on, for

Sung here by Fred Feild: