From the 1929 Fox Movietone Production “Sunny Side Up”.
Words and music by De Sylva, Brown, and Henderson.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- I talk to your photograph each day
You should hear the lovely things I say
But I’ve thought how happy I would be
If your photograph could talk to me
Chorus
If I had a talking picture of you-oo
I would run it ev’ry time I felt blue-oo
I would sit there in the gloom
Of my lonely little room
And applaud each time you whispered
“I love you! Love you!”
On the screen the moment you came in view-oo
We would talk the whole thing over, we two-oo
I would give ten shows a day
And a midnight matinee
If I had a talking picture of you
- All I have to keep me company
Is the photograph you gave to me
I propose a thousand plans, but oh
It don’t answer “Yes” or even “No”
Sung here by Fred Feild: