A lonely and blue 1915 “torch song”
words by Roger Graham
music by Spencer Williams
The sheet music:
Accompaniment:
Lyrics
- There’s a saying going ’round
And I begin to think it’s true
It’s awful hard to love someone
When they don’t care ’bout you
Once I had a lovin’ man
As good as any in this town
But now I’m sad and lonely
For he’s gone and turned me down, now
Chorus
I ain’t got nobody, and nobody cares for me
(I got the blues, the weary blues)
And I’m sad and lonely, won’t somebody
Come and take a chance with me?
I’ll sing sweet love songs, honey, all the time
If you’ll come and be my sweet baby mine
‘Cause I ain’t got nobody
And nobody cares for me
- If I only had someone
That I could only call my own
For I would marry them at once
And take them to my home
Every night I sigh and cry
No happiness at all I find
I have no one to love me
No one to content my mind, ’cause
Sung here by Fred Feild: