Historic Sheet Music Collection
Document Type
Score
Links to Recordings at the Internet Archive
https://archive.org/details/78_i-know-what-it-means-to-be-lonesome_george-meader-kendis-brockman-and-vincent_gbia0016765b
https://archive.org/details/78_i-know-what-it-means-to-be-lonesome_george-meader-kendis-brockman-vincent_gbia0008065bPublication Date
1919
Lyrics
Verse 1
I never knew, I would miss you,
Until you went away,
Now I can see, what you were to me,
My heart just seems to say:
CHORUS
I know what it means to be lonesome,
I know how it feels to be blue,
I know what it means to long in my dreams, for someone, for someone,
I’ve sighed and I’ve cried since we parted,
There’s no one knows what I’ve gone through;
I’d give all that I own, just to have you back home,
I’m so lonesome, so lonesome for you.
VERSE 2
Hope seems to say,
There’ll come a day
Your smiles again I’ll see,
My love is true, and you know it too,
Come back, come back to me.
CHORUS
Recommended Citation
Kendis, James; Brockman, James; Vincent, Nat.; and Hutt, Henry, "I Know What It Means to Be Lonesome" (1919). Historic Sheet Music Collection. 1643.
https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/sheetmusic/1643
The views expressed in this paper are solely those of the author.
Comments
Popular Edition
Leo. Feist Inc. New York
Herman Darewski Music Publishing Co. London Eng.
Also Published for Male or Mixed Voices 15¢ or Orchestra 25¢
Copyright MCMXIX by Leo Feist, Inc.
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