Berlin Irving
Miscellaneous
If You Don't Want Me (24 Sep 1913)
[Full title: If You Don't Want Me (Why Do You Hang Around)]
[1st verse:]
Honey something's wrong with my eyes and it makes me blue
Ev'rytime I open my eyes I'm looking at you
Why should you be haunting me all the livelong day
Honey if you don't want me why don't you keep away
[chorus:]
If you don't want me
Why do you hang around?
Why do you hang around?
Why do you haunt me
Just like a haunting melody?
What did I do to you?
What did I do to you?
I can't forget you
What am I going to do,
What am I going to do?
I sailed the ocean blue
To get away from you
In ev'ry foreign place
I met you face to face
If you don't want me
Why do you, why do you hang around?
[2nd verse:]
I looked at your picture dear and it seemed to speak
When I saw your beautiful face I cried for a week
I tore up your picture dear, threw it on the floor
Then I saw you standing there more lovely than before