From the musical “The Cocoanuts”, 1926
Words and music by Irving Berlin
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
Every now and then you ask me why I love you
Why it is that I’m forever thinking of you
Every now and then I pause
Trying hard to find the cause
And tho’ it’s true that I love you
It’s hard to say just why I do, but
Chorus
Why do you want to know why?
Does it matter just why
I love you ‘long as I do?
Hope to die, I’d be willing to try
But I couldn’t tell why
I only know that I do
Maybe it’s because
You came my way when I was blue
Maybe it’s because
I heard you say, “I’m lonely, too”
Maybe away up high in the blue of the sky
They could tell you just why
I love you as much as I do
Sung here by Laurence Rubenstein: