What Can I Do?

(To forget a girl like you)
a 1926 popular song
words and music by Lou Herscher, Don Rockwell and Billy Hays

The sheet music:

What-Can-I-Do – Sheet MusicDownload

Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:

What_Can_I_Do – MIDIDownload

Lyrics

  1. We’re saying “Goodbye”
    I just have to cry
    How can I ever forget?
    Asleep or awake
    My heart, dear, will ache
    For somehow I’ll always regret
    (I wonder)

Chorus
What can I do
To forget a girl like you?
When I gaze at the sky
I can’t help but sigh
For your eyes like the skies are blue
I try to forget
But each golden sunset
Is always recalling
The night we met
So, what can I do
To forget a girl like you?

  1. Where are all our dreams?
    Those beautiful schemes
    Gone is that romance of old
    But, still I’ll be true
    To no one but you
    Thro’ memory’s pages of gold
    (I wonder)

Sung here by Laurence Rubenstein: