What’s the Use?

A fox trot ballad from 1930
Words and music by Isham Jones and Chas. Newman

The sheet music:

Whats-the-Use – Sheet MusicDownload

Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:

Whats_The_Use – MIDIDownload

Lyrics

  1. You brought the news to me
    That I’m your “used-to-be”
    And now you choose to be with somebody else
    I’m trying to forget
    With new friends that I’ve met it’s useless
    My dreams tumble as I stumble on

Chorus
I try to smile and pretend all the while
But since you went away, “What’s the use?”
I try to clown, just to hide every frown
But my heart seems to say: “What’s the use?”
I build each dream that I dream just for you
How can they ever come true?
I need you more now than ever before
But you’ve closed heaven’s door
So “What’s the use?”

  1. My road to happiness now leads to loneliness
    And now I must confess, dear, I can’t go on
    The joy I might have known
    I’ll never know alone I need you
    But a new love, sees a true love gone

Sung here by Laurence Rubenstein: