(Why Do You Hang Around)
From “Trained Nurses”, 1913
Words and music by Irving Berlin
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- Honey something’s wrong with my eyes
And it makes me blue
Every time I open my eyes
I’m looking at you
Why should you be haunting me
All the live long day
Honey if you don’t want me
Why don’t you keep away
Chorus:
If you don’t want me
Why do you hang around?
Why do you hang around?
Why do you haunt me
Just like a haunting melody?
What did I do to you?
What did I do to you?
I can’t forget you
What am I going to do
What am I going to do?
I sailed the ocean blue
To get away from you
In every foreign place
I met you face to face
If you don’t want me why do you
Why do you hang around?
- I looked at your picture dear
And it seemed to speak
When I saw your beautiful face
I cried for a week
I tore up your picture dear
Threw it on the floor
Then I saw you standing there
More lovely than before