From the musical “No No Nanette”, 1924.
Words by Irving Caesar.
Music by Vincent Youmans.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- I’m a very ordinary man
Trying to work out life’s happy plan
Doing unto others as I’d like
To have them doing unto me
When I find a very lonely soul
To be kind becomes my only goal
I feel so much better
When I tell them my philosophy
Refrain
I want to be happy but I won’t be happy
Till I make you happy, too
Life’s really worth living
When we are mirth-giving
Why can’t I give some to you?
When skies are gray
And you say you are blue
I’ll send the sun smiling through
I want to be happy but I won’t be happy
Till I make you happy, too
- No one ever talked like that to me
I have never known such sympathy
Only in my dreams it really seems to me
It’s too good to be true
There are smiling faces everywhere
Surely I deserve my little share
I’m a lucky girl to know
That I can get it all from you