Berlin Irving If You Don`t Want Me (24 Sep 1913) Lyrics

If You Don`t Want Me (24 Sep 1913) Lyrics

[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