Featured in the 1923 show “Midnight Rounders”
words by Jack Yellen
music by Albert May Malotte
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- I shouldn’t think of you I know
You have forgotten long ago
I’ve tried in vain it seems
To keep you from my dreams
Why do I love you so?
Chorus
I wonder why I care for you
I knew you never could be true
But, like the moth around the flame
I played with the fire of my heart’s desire
You shattered each and every vow
And yet I love you even now
Altho’ you’ve broken my heart in two
Why do I care for you?
- Sometimes when tender memory
Brings back the days that used to be
How I love to pretend
There never was an end
And you’re still true to me
Sung here by Laurence Rubenstein: