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Joseph wrote:

> My question has to do with a song (midi file) I download from the FILES
> page. It was under the Piano Bar heading in the Cocktail folder Dated Nov 28
> 1999. The song is "Because I Love You" " by YJ Milton Delcam. I'd like to
> find the lyrics and when it was written. Is there someone who knows this
> writer.


This song is probably:

"Because I Love You"
Words and Music by Irving Berlin
Copyrighted Sept. 29, 1926

VERSE I:

Why am I lonely and why am I blue,
And why am I thinking, just thinking of you?
Why should I care if you've broken your vow,
And why do I wonder who's kissing you now?

CHORUS:

Because I love you--
I've tried so hard but can't forget.
Because I love you--
You linger in my mem'ry yet.
Because I miss you--
I often wish we'd never met.
And though you left a tear
As a souvenir,
It doesn't matter, dear,
Because I love you.

VERSE 2:

"Off with the old love and on with the new"
Is easy to say but not easy to do.
What does it matter how far we're apart?
You're out of my life, dear, but still in my heart.

(Repeat chorus)

I agree with Spencer that J. Milton Delcamp (an arranger/performer with 
Ampico) was incorrectly credited for the song, but maybe he was 
responsible for this particular arrangement.  I need to find time to 
locate this particular music file and compare it.

Mark Fontana