You Only Want Me When You’re Lonesome

(And Nobody Else Wants You)
A popular song from 1926
Words by Louis Seifert
Music by Edwin Tillman


The sheet music:


Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:


Lyrics

  1. You’re back once again just to try and explain
    I can picture your thoughts at a glance
    You broke every vow so why ask me now
    To give you another chance

Chorus
You only want me when you’re lonesome
You only want me when you’re blue
You never care what heartaches I bear
While someone is holding you
You love and you lie
While I sigh and cry
But now it’s goodbye we’re thru (we’re thru)
You only want me when you’re lonesome
And nobody else wants you

  1. There once was a time that I thought you divine
    I believed every word that you said
    But that day is past and I’ve learned at last
    That my love for you is dead

Sung here by Laurence Rubenstein: