CRYING MY HEART OUT FOR YOU
(Claude Hopkins / J.C. Johnson)


Chick Webb & His Orch. (vocal: Ella Fitzgerald) - 1936
Joe Loss & His Orch. (vocal: Anne Lenner) - 1936
Charlie Kunz & The Casani Club Orch. (vocal: Vera Lynn) - 1936


Also recorded by: Chuck Folds; Claude Hopkins.




All my dreams are over, now I’m wide awake
With a lonesome feeling and a constant ache
Living with my mem'ries just for old times sake
Crying my heart out for you


Hope you’ll be more tender in your next affair
Trust you’ll think of me, dear, when you’ve time to spare
Praying you’ll be happy is my only prayer
Crying my heart out for you


Your heart may ache you, friends may forsake you
Sometimes it happens that way
But I’m still for you, always adore you
I love you, I love you, what more can I say


I was just a scholar, made for you to teach
Searching for a true love, one I couldn’t reach
Now I’m just a pebble on a lonely beach
Crying my heart out for you



(Transcribed by Bill Huntley - November 2004)

(Updated by Mel Priddle - July 2015)