A popular song from 1928.
Words by Jack Yellen.
Music by Milton Ager.
Sheet music provided by Laurence Rubenstein:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- What a beautiful day!
Not a cloud up in the sky
Guess I ought to be happy
But I’m not, and you know why
Pretty flowers in bloom
Little birds in ev’ry tree
But if you don’t love me, dear
What do they mean to me?
Chorus
The birds are singing
What do I care what they’re singing
If you don’t love me?
The spring is bringing
What do I care what it’s bringing
If you don’t love me?
The sun is shining
But it don’t have to be
‘Cause rain or shine what does it matter to me?
My heart is aching
What do you care if it’s breaking
If you don’t love me?
- Pansies smiling at me
As I walk with head bowed down
I suppose that they wonder
Why I pass them with a frown
Everywhere that I go
What a happy land I see
It’s a lovely world today
For ev’ryone but me
Sung here by Fred Feild: