If You Ever See Anything of Flora

A popular song from 1934.
Words and music by Joe Young, Jean Schwartz and Milton Ager.

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Sheet music provided by Laurence Rubenstein:

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Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:

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Lyrics

1. Tragedy! On a little street in Italy
   In a tenement in Mulberry
   There’s a lover all alone
   Tragedy! He’s a picture there of misery
   Once he used to live there happily
   Now the neighbors hear him moan

Chorus
If you ever see anything of Flora
Ask her why I never see her anymore-a
Say that I’m not “high fedora”
If you ever see anything of Flora
Tell her that I miss her chicken cachhadora
And the way she used to play “Il Trovatora”
Say that home ain’t home no more-a
If you ever see anything of Flora
How she loved to hear me singin’ “Chiri biri bee”
Oh, Chiri biri bee, O, solo mi”
Maybe someone else is singin’ “Chiri biri bee”
Oh, Chiri biri bee, O, solo mi”
If you ever see anything of Flora
Tell her like a monk that goes from door to door-a
I’ll go begging pennies for her
If you ever see anything of Flora

2. Tragedy! Came and took the place of comedy
   Took the sun from little Italy
   And the lady of the song
   Tragedy! Where they used to live so happily
   No more songs of sunny Napoli
   He just cries the whole day long

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Sung here by Fred Feild: