a 1926 popular song
words by Jack Yellen
music by Max Kortlander and Willie Jones
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by Fred Feild:
Lyrics
- Sweetheart, tell me what’s the reason
For your acting so strange
In your huggin’ and your squeezin’
There has been a change
Tell me why do I find you
Cold to my sweet kiss?
I don’t want to remind you
But remember this
Chorus
To be with you I left my home sweet home
To be with you, no matter where you roam
Folks said, “Beware! because he’ll be untrue”
But what did I care, just as long as I had you?
To be with you I left my Ma and Pa
And now you’re giving me the “Ha ha ha”
After I have been so faithful
How can you be so ungrateful?
After all I’ve done to be with you
- Are you really tired of me?
Don’t you care anymore?
If it’s true that you don’t love me
What can I live for?
But if my kisses bore you
Tell me and I’ll go
I’ll do anything for you
‘Cause I love you so
Sung here by Laurence Rubenstein: