A 1922 popular song.
Words by Walter Hirsch.
Music by Henry Busse.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- I’m simply wild about a bloo-ey blue tune
And it’s just a pretty strain
If it don’t leave me then I’ll go crazy soon
‘Cause it’s going to my brain
You can rave about the blues you have heard
But I’ll tell you that this one is a bird
And tho’ this tune has never had any name
It’s haunting me just the same
Chorus
“Haunting blues they’re the blues I can’t lose
They follow me
I know that I can’t refuse that melody
They are on my mind
I can’t chase them away, I’ll lose my shoes
I know that those haunting blues are here to stay
When I weep they repeat
I can’t sleep, I can’t eat
How they haunt how they taunt and accuse
And it’s true that each time I feel blue
Filled with regret
I find that I can’t forget those haunting blues”
- Such syncopation and such blue harmony
Still it’s not a weary blues
It’s got a pleasin’, teasin’ sweet melody
And it tells of happy news
It just keeps me guessing all the night thru
I’m confessing I don’t know what to do
I was arrested, couldn’t get any bail
Here’s what I sang in the jail
Sung here by Fred Feild: