DO NOT SAY GOOD-BYE
From the Marx Bros' Vaudeville Show "Home Again" (1915)
(Leonard Marx [aka Chico Marx])


The Marx Brothers - 1915


You ask me why I feel so blue 
You ask me why I cry 
You ask me why I look so sad 
You ask me why I sigh

You made me love you more and more 
And now that we must part 
The sunshine leaves, the sorrow comes 
Into my breaking heart

Don't say good-bye, Dear, please don't go away 
I feel so lonesome, I want you to stay, my Dearie 
When I am lonely, that's the time I sigh 
I want you only, so do not say good-bye

I knew that sometime you would go 
And leave me all alone 
I hoped in vain that you might stay 
And never, never roam

And though you promise to return 
I know that you'll not find 
The broken heart, the shattered life 
That you once left behind

Don't say good-bye, Dear, please don't go away 
I feel so lonesome, I want you to stay, my Dearie 
When I am lonely, that's the time I sigh 
I want you only, so do not say good-bye











(Contributed by Mel - November 2009)