Midnight Blues

A popular song from 1919
Words by Errol Collins
Music by Herb Brown


The sheet music:


Accompaniment by Denese Coulbeck:


Lyrics

  1. I’ve got an ear for music
    When I hear a song
    I can learn the melody
    And never get it wrong
    But I am always worried
    When it comes to words
    I stayed up till twelve last night
    On one that I just heard

Chorus
Hm-m-m by lamplight
Hm-m-m till midnight
I take them, and fake them
Hm, Then lose them
Hm-m-m, I’m crying
Hm-m-m, I’m trying, to strike them
I like them Hm
But they give me the Midnight Blues

  1. Each time I hear that music
    I just go insane
    That peculiar melody
    Is running thro’ my brain
    It always gets me worried
    Every time it starts
    If those words don’t come to me
    Why it will break my heart

Sung here by Laurence Rubenstein: