A popular song from 1917.
Words and Music by Irving Berlin.
Cover Art by Albert W. Barbelle.
Copyright ©4 Jan 1917.
Sheet Music from the collection of Michael Deatz.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- I left my darling the other day
We started quarreling, I went away
But now I wish that I was back
I love my baby, indeed I do
And who knows maybe, she loves me too
But that’s just maybe, and that won’t do
Chorus:
All that worries me
Is someone else may be there, while I’m gone
In my dreams I see
A couple spooning on the lawn
That very thought just keeps me worried
I lay awake till the break of the dawn
I must hurry back, ’cause someone else
May be there, while I’m gone
- I’m wild about her, that’s why I’m blue
I hate to doubt her the way I do
I may be wrong I may be right
Altho’ I worry an awful lot
If I should hurry back to the spot
She may be waiting. She may be, not
Sung by Laurence Rubenstein: