(One Hour Tonight)
A popular song from 1926
Words and music by Henry Creamer and Jimmy Johnson
Republished here for the 1949 film “Flamingo Road”
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- I’m so blue, I don’t know what to do
All day through I’m pining just for you
I did wrong when I let you go away
For now I grieve about you night and day
I’m unhappy and dissatisfied
But I’d be happy if I had you by my side
Chorus
If I could be with you, I’d love you strong
If I could be with you, I’d love you long
I want you to know I wouldn’t go
Until I told you honey why I love you so
If I could be with you one hour tonight
If I was free to do the things I might
I’m telling you true, I’d be anything but blue
If I could be with you
- All dressed up but still nowhere to go
How I wish that I could see a show
Here I wait with no one to call me “Dear”
The one I love is many miles from here
Central give me One-Two-Three-Four – J
Oh, won’t you listen little sweetie, while I say
Sung here by Laurence Rubenstein: