A popular song from 1904.
Words by Joe Rosey.
Music by Albert Von Tilzer.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- Bill’s away, he left the other day
I’m so lonesome,I tell you what is more
My heart is feeling mighty sore
Because he never left his home before
And I must write to him this very night
Just to kind o’ jog his mind
The girl he left behind ain’t feeling right
Chorus
I’m so lonesome, I’ve been waiting long for you
Someone tell me what I really ought to do
(Oh can’t you see that) I’m so lonesome
Lonesome, still I wouldn’t feel so blue
If I but knew, dear
You were kind ‘o lonesome too
- “Bill, come home, don’t leave me all alone
Ev’ry time I think about you, Bill
There’s such a funny little chill
That comes a creeping o’er me ‘gainst my will
Now, can’t you see, how lonesome I must be?
Billy, if you stay away from me another day
You’ll sure lose me”
Sung here by Vancha March: