A popular song from 1915
Words by Howard Johnson
Music by Fred Fischer
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by Denese Coulbeck:
Lyrics
- Oh, let me live on Broadway
Where the lights are all a-glow
Where ev’ryone seems happy
In the crowds that come and go
Thus speaks the foolish dreamer
And he prays his dream come true
But he’d never leaave the village if he knew
Chorus
There’s a broken heart for ev’ry light on Broadway
A million tears for every gleam, they say
Those lights, above you, think nothing of you
It’s those who love you that have to pay
There’s a sorrow lurking in each gloomy shadow
And sorrow comes to ev’ryone some day
Twill come to our brothers
But think of the mothers
With broken hearts for each light on Broadway
- There’s broken-hearted husbands
And there’s broken-hearted wives
And broken-hearted sweethearts
Who must now lead double lives
And there’s the boy and girl
Who thought twas right to take a chance
And they all must pay the fiddler, if they dance
Sung here by Laurence Rubenstein: