A 1919 popular song.
Words by Roy Turk and George Jessel.
Music by Willy White.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- Your face is familiar to me
Now let me think who can you be
Oh you were my sweetheart of long ago
The one who always made me worry so
You used to make me cry somehow
But my crying days are over now
Chorus
Oh how I laugh when I think how I cried about you
Although I smile all the while
Don’t you ever think that I’m not blue
Of course I don’t care whom you know
Or what you do or where you go
Because I’ve lost you I’m not sad
But when I think of all the sweethearts that I could have had
I can’t forget how you said you would always be true
And tho’ deceived, I believed
And I gave up ev’ry friend I knew and all for you
You fooled me when you said you loved me right from the start
You played your game and made a plaything out of my heart
Oh! how I laugh when I think how I cried about you
- I sighed and I cried about you
But tell me what good did it do?
You taught me a lesson I’ll not forget
And now I’ll look before I leap, you bet
When you would flirt it drove me wild
That’s because I was a crazy child
Sung here by Laurence Rubenstein: