Who Cares? (1922)

a 1922 popular song
Words by Jack Yellen.
Music by Milton Ager


The sheet music:


Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:


Lyrics

  1. Ev’rybody has got somebody to tell their troubles to
    A sympathetic pal or true blue regular gal
    I’m somebody who’s got nobody to go to when I’m blue
    There’s love and sympathy for ev’rybody but me

Chorus
Who cares if my heart is aching?
At times when it’s breaking, who cares?
Oh, Gee! poor me!
How often I get feeling sentimental
But no one gives a continental
Who cares how many tears I shed
At nightime when I’ve said my pray’rs?
I guess I’ll phone the old maids’ home
Gee whiz! how tough it is
When there’s nobody who cares

  1. When somebody has got somebody it makes somebody mad
    To see somebody sweet with ev’rybody you meet
    If nobody had anybody to make somebody glad
    How sad and blue like me most ev’rybody would be

Sung here by Fred Feild: