A popular song from 1910.
Words by Gus Kahn.
Music by Grace Le Boy.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- You’ve heard a lot of love-tales
Some happy and some sad
But I’ve a tale of woe I know
You will say that it’s too bad
My folks said ‘Izzy why don’t you get busy
Get a wife and a nice little home”
But that’s all in vain for my sweetheart’s name
Is Genevieve Malone
Chorus
It’s tough when Izzy Rosenstein
Loves Genevieve Malone
He doesn’t dare to call on her
Or take her to his home
His mother calls him down and cries
Her brother blackens both his eyes
It’s tough when Izzy Rosenstein
Loves Genevieve Malone
- Sometimes I sit and wonder
If I will live to see
A home that I can call my own
And a baby on my knee
That’s idle dreaming, there’s no use in scheming
Such a joy as that I’ll never know
There’s no Juliet in the Irish set
For Izzy Romeo
Sung here by Vancha March: