LONELY 
(Noel Gay)

as recorded by Al Bowlly
with The New Mayfair Dance Orchestra
conducted bu Ronnie Munro
February 1939 London


You went away, out of my life,
That seems to me all wrong!
You were to me all of my life,
Never a day seemed long!

Why did a seemingly heavenly scheme
Have to go so impossibly wrong?
And why came the day you went away?
Had you to go?  Couldn't you stay?

I'm lonely because you're far away,
Lonely because you're gone!
Lonely, oh I long away,
Only my thoughts go on!

Daytime, I long for night to fall,
Night time, I long for day,
Hoping that you'll come back again,
Lonely 'cause you're away!

Daytime, I long for night to fall,
Night time, I long for day,
I'm hoping that you'll come back again,
Lonely 'cause you're away!




(Transcribed by Peter Akers - October 2017)