I’m Just a Vagabond Lover

A fox-trot ballad from 1929
Words and music by Rudy Vallee and Leon Zimmerman


The sheet music:


Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:


Lyrics

  1. All alone I sit and dream of someone
    Someone that I hold as my ideal
    Hoping that someday I’ll find that someone
    Wondering what the future will reveal

Chorus
For some girls are quickly forgotten
And gone with the dawn of the day
But some you remember like last glowing embers
Haunting your memory and dreams
For I’m just a vagabond lover
In search of a sweetheart it seems
And I know that someday I’ll discover her
The girl of my vagabond dreams

  1. Tho’ I’ve searched I never once have found her
    All my travels seem to be in vain
    I’ve looked for her in every kind of weather
    Wondering if I’d find her in the rain

Sung here by Laurence Rubenstein: