Come Back To Me, My Melody

A popular song from 1912
Words by Irving Berlin
Music by Ted Snyder

The sheet music:

Come Back To Me, My Melody – Sheet MusicDownload

Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:

Come_Back_To_Me_My_Melody – MIDIDownload

Lyrics

  1. A man composed a sweet melody
    One Summer’s night in June
    And he played that pretty tune
    Till he learned to love it soon
    He ne’er wrote down that sweet melody
    And very strange, one day
    He found that pretty melody
    Had vanished from his memory
    He cried as he tried to recall that tune
    Then sang to it tenderly

Chorus:
Come back to me, my melody
Come back to where you ought to be
I want you, don’t you understand?
Locked up in my baby grand
Just where I can lay my hand on thee
Oh! I miss you so
More than you may know
Don’t you know it’s very wrong
To be where you don’t belong?
Oh! please come back to me, my melody

  1. The man who wrote that sweet melody
    Tried to recall the strain
    But it ne’er came back again
    So he gave it up in vain
    One night he heard an orchestra play
    Strains of a sweet refrain
    He recognized his melody
    Although they changed it cleverly
    He ran to the man and he loudly cried
    “That music belongs to me”

Sung here by Laurence Rubenstein: