From George White’s Scandals of 1931.
Words and music by Lew Brown & Ray Henderson.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment:
Lyrics
All my pretty speeches are a bust
And so I must try something new
I’ve been sitting up the whole night long
Writing a song all about you
I don’t care if it is a big success
As long as it will change your “No” to “Yes”
Chorus
My song won’t appeal to a lover of art
My song will reveal what I feel in my heart
It won’t have so much of Franz Schubert’s touch
And I can’t begin with Irving Berlin
My song though a poet would never Okay
My song, still you know what I’m striving to say
The words may be crude, the tune may be wrong
But you’ll find my heart in my song
Sung here by Laurence Rubenstein: