A popular song from 1923
Words and music by Irving Berlin
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
Butterfly take warning while you may
Youth only lasts a day
Blossoms and fades away
There will come a morning when you’ll cry
Poor little Butterfly
You know the reason why
Chorus
Too many sweethearts
Call you their sweetheart
But when your day is done
You’ll wish that you had only one
For some day you may be nobody’s Baby
Instead of many, you’ll find
You won’t have any sweetheart at all
Sung here by Laurence Rubenstein: