A popular song from 1929.
Words by Lorenz Hart.
Music by Richard Rodgers.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- I don’t know what day it is
Or if it’s dark or fair
Somehow, that’s just the way it is
And I don’t really care
I go to this or that place
I seem alive and well
My head is just a hat place
My breast an empty shell
And I’ve a faded dream to sell
Refrain
All alone, all at sea
Why does nobody care for me?
When there’s no love to hold my love?
Why is my heart so frail
Like a ship without a sail?
Out on the ocean
Sailors can use a chart
I’m on the ocean
Guided by just a lonely heart
Still alone, still at sea
Still there’s no one to care for me
When there’s no hand to hold my hand
Life is a loveless tale
For a ship without a sail
- When love leaves you all alone
You’re living in the past
Then you feel so small alone
And oh! the world seems vast
You tell your grief to no girls
You never make it known
Your smile is like a show-girl’s
Your laugh a hollow tone
And then your little heart’s a stone