In the musical “Safety In Numbers”, 1930
Words by George Marion, Jr.
Music by Richard A. Whiting
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
You will find my past not spotless
If you care to delve
Twenty broken hearts and not less
Before I was twelve
But from then on I stopped
From the parade I dropped
Hopes of future loves I’d started to shelve
But
Refrain
There goes the girl I dreamed all thru school about
There goes the girl I’ll now be a fool about
Ring down the curtain, I’m certain at present
My future just passed
Don’t even know if she has been spoken for
If she is tied, the ties must be broken, for
Life can’t be that way, to wake me then break me
My future just passed
Stars in the blue, tho’ you’re at a distance
You can at least do this,
Sometimes a boy encounters resistance
Help me to win this miss.
Here are my arms, may she find illusion there
Look in my heart, there is no confusion there
Now that I’m loving, I’m living at last,
My future just passed
Sung here by Laurence Rubenstein: