A popular song from 1939.
Words by Harold Adamson.
Music by Bernard Hanighen.
Based on an original quatrain by Hughes Mearns.
Sheet music provided by Nicholas Leunissen:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
There’s a thing that just keeps bothering me
I don’t know what it’s all about
It’s a crazy thing I happened to see
Maybe you can help me out
Chorus
Last night I saw upon the stair
A little man who wasn’t there
He wasn’t there again today
Oh how I wish he’d go away
When I came home last night at three
The man was waiting there for me
But when I looked around the hall
I couldn’t see him there at all
Go away, go away
Don’t you come back anymore
Go away, go away
And please don’t slam the door
Last night I saw upon the stair
A little man who wasn’t there
He wasn’t there again today
Oh how I wish he’d go away
Sung here by Vancha March: