a 1929 popular song
words by Grant Clarke
music by Harry Akst
The sheet music:
Accompaniment track:
Lyrics
- I’m just a woman, a lonely woman
Waitin’ on the weary shore
I’m just a woman, that’s only human
One you should be sorry for
Got up this mornin’ along about dawn
Without a warnin’ I found he was gone
Why should he do it? How could he do it?
He never done it before
Chorus
Am I blue? Am I blue?
Ain’t these tears in these eyes tellin’ you?
Am I blue? You’d be too
If each plan with your man done fell through
Was a time I was his only one
But now I’m the sad and lonely one
“Lawdy,” Was I gay? ’til today
Now he’s gone and we’re through
Am I blue?
- It’s aggravatin’ to stand her waitin’
Waitin’ for a trifflin’ man
It set me hatin’ to stand here waitin’
Suicide’s my only plan
I think it’s awful, his treatment of me
It’s most unlawful how mean he can be
I can’t forget him, I’m bound to get him
I’ll run him down if I can
Sung here by Fred Feild: