When You Walked Out Someone Else Walked Right In

A popular song from 1923
Words and music by Irving Berlin


The sheet music:


Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:


Lyrics

  1. My honey, do you remember
    ‘Twas a December day
    I said that you would repent
    The day that you went away
    You turned as red as a ruby
    Much too good to be true
    You thought I’d sit around lonely
    Thinking of only you
    Little you knew that

Chorus
When you walked out
Someone else walked right in
Someone with good news
Stepped right in your shoes
Somebody else took your place on my knee
Another sweetie in clover fussin’ all over me
I saw that you grew so cold, love
So what could I do?
Off with the old love
And on with the new
When you walked out
Honey I just had to grin
You left the door wide open and
Somebody else walked in

  1. A happy couple were we two
    While you were sweet to me
    But now I’m sending bad news
    To my little used to be
    You thought the minute you’d shake me
    That it would make me blue
    And I would sit around lonely
    Thinking of only you
    Little you knew that

Sung here by Laurence Rubenstein: