Even that the version in the cocktail ZIP file (FIL) is slower and in a different mood, it seems to me that it is the same melody than in the piano roll files, so it should be the one that Mark mentions, by Irving Berlin
A new question,
Mark: where in the world can you find such old and well documented lyrics?
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A new question,
Mark: where in the world can you find such old and well documented lyrics?
2009/10/28 Mark Fontana <mfontana@...>
This song is probably:
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.
"Because I Love You"
Words and Music by Irving Berlin
Copyrighted Sept. 29, 1926
VERSE I:CHORUS:
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?
You linger in my mem'ry yet.
Because I love you--
I've tried so hard but can't forget.
Because I love you--Because I love you.
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,
VERSE 2:You're out of my life, dear, but still in my heart.
"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?
(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
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