A popular song from 1919
Words by Errol Collins
Music by Herb Brown
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by Denese Coulbeck:
Lyrics
- 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
- 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: