From the show “A Lonely Romeo”, 1919.
Words by Robert B. Smith.
Music by Malvin M. Franklin.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
What a night! What a night!
Not a star seen in sight
How it rains! How it pours!
How I envy the people indoors
Lordy! It’s a beaut!
Wish I had my bathing suit
Refrain
While in the swell cabaret
The folks are merry and gay
I’m on the outside feeling blue
While they’re a-dancing the fox
I’m getting soak’d to the socks
And feeling friendly with the “flue”
While ev’rybody gets champagne
I’m getting nothing here but rain
And while they got all the booze
That anybody could use
I got the Influenza Blues
Sung here by Vancha March: