WHEN YOU'RE GOOD YOU'RE LONESOME
(Grace Doro,   1920)

Edythe Baker


I feel so sad and lonely I wish I knew just why 
Every one is happy, 
While all I do is sigh. 
I walk the straight and narrow path 
I'm good as I can be; 
Maybe that's just what is wrong, 
For it seems to me.

My mother always told me "Be very, very good;" 
I took her advise, 
Like a good child always should. 
I went to bed at eight o'clock 
But what did that get me? 
I have missed an awful lot, 
Now I plainly see.

When you are good, you're so lonesome, 
And when you're lonesome you're blue; 
Sometimes it seems very hard to believe 
Every dark cloud has a silver lining 
I think it'll get me a sweetie who'll make afuss over me, 
Just love and pet me all the day; 
Then I'll never have to say 
When you are good you're so lonesome, 
And when you're lonesome you're blue.