From the film “Damn Yankees”, 1958.
Words and music by Richard Adler.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
There’s something about an empty chair
That makes me feel afraid
When he’s not sitting there
And since he’s gone away
The house seems much too bare
Empty am I with my empty chair
There’s something about an empty room
An empty pair of slippers
Underlines the gloom
The tulips that he planted
All have lost their bloom
Fill is my heart in my empty room
Full of longing to hold him, then child-like
To scold him for wanting to go
But if I would wake up to find him
We’d take up where we left off, I know
There’s something about an empty bed
It’s lonely with the covers
Smooth from foot to head
No Joe to hug, my pillow has to do instead
Empty am I with my empty life
For without a husband, what is a wife?