A popular song from 1919
Words and music by J. Berni Barbour
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- Every morn just at dawn
I’m forlorn, somethings wrong
I can’t tell, I wonder why
Try so heard to do right
With all main and might
Yet it seems I’m slippin’
Slippin’ onward and on
Into those cruel Temptation Blues
Chorus:
I’ve got those cruel, sinful
Temptation Blues
I’ll fight a duel
Almost anything I’m apt to do
I feel mean, Gee, I could scream
I never dreamed that I could change
First seemed strange, easy now
Since you drove me to those
Low down lonesome Temptation Blues
Don’t worry when folks tell you
‘Bout the things I do
Just stop and wonder why
No need to plead and sigh
Repent for all the tears I’ve shed
Then say you last goodbye
I’m raving with those cruel
Temptation Blues
- I’m distressed, so depressed
I confess, I’ve done less
Than return the love you gave me
I robbed your heart and soul
For your paltry gold
I was tempted, you consented
What else was there to do?
When came those Temptation Blues?
Sung by Laurence Rubenstein: