"All By Myself" is a hit Tin Pan Alley song with music and lyrics by Irving Berlin, originally published in 1921. It was featured on Broadway in The Music Box Revue of 1922, and it was featured in the Hollywood musical film Blue Skies in 1946. As one of the standards of the Great American Songbook, "All By Myself" has been interpreted by many artists, including Bing Crosby, Ella Fitzgerald, and Nat King Cole. the song demonstrates Berlin's ability to write songs that were poetic yet conversational and relatable; his music seemed to speak for the quintessential American.
I have been working on this version from an Irving Berlin songbook I own. I am sorry to say that I discovered, while working on this description, this is not entirely the original lyric. This version is:
Verse
I'm so unhappy
What'll I do
I long for somebody who
will sympathize with me
I'm growing so tired of living alone
I lie awake all night and cry
Nobody loves me, that's why.
Chorus
All by myself in the morning
All by myself in the night
I sit alone with a table and a chair
So unhappy there
Playing solitaire
All by myself I get lonely
Watching the clock on the shelf
I'd love to rest my weary head on somebody's shoulder
I hate to grow older
All by myself
The original sheet music has a 2nd verse and a chorus reference to a now-obscure Morris chair (perhaps I should record this one too?):
Verse 1
I'm so unhappy
What'll I do
I long for somebody who
will sympathize with me
I'm growing so tired of living alone
I lie awake all night and cry
Nobody loves me, that's why.
Chorus
All by myself in the morning
All by myself in the night
I sit alone in a cosy Morris chair
So unhappy there
Playing solitaire
All by myself I get lonely
Watching the clock on the shelf
I'd love to rest my weary head on somebody's shoulder
I hate to grow older
All by myself.
Verse 2
My name and number are in the book
The one that hangs on a hook
In almost ev'ry drug store
Why don't someone bother to look
My central tells me all day long
"Sorry the number is wrong."
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