From the musical “The Heart-Breakers”, 1911
Words by Will M. Hough and Frank R. Adams
Music by Harold Orlob
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- A wonderful thing is true love in the Spring
Dreams you are dreaming a-plenty
Believing the lies of the Spring in her eyes
Love never dies when you’re twenty
You think that your sweetheart
When you are not nigh
Just looks at your picture and has a good cry
Thoughts of her loneliness cause you to sigh
But listen, my boy, don’t you worry
Refrain:
Somewhere she’s flirting with Someone
Somebody you never knew
Sighing the same sweet old story
Just as she used to with you
Oh! Somewhere the moonlight so dreamy
Smiles down on the same little game
Somewhere she’s flirting with someone
And knows you are doing the same
- It’s hard to be true when the moon smiles on you
Easy to flirt with the nearest
When lights are turned low
And the June breezes blow
How can she know who’s her dearest?
Don’t ever expect that because she loves you
She hates all the rest of the men that she knew
Don’t be surprised if she knows quite a few
And seems to be fond of the others
Sung by Laurence Rubenstein: