Sheet Music, 1910-1919
Title
There's A Broken Heart For Every Light On Broadway / music by Fred Fisher; words by Howard Johnson
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ISBN
MUM00682, 0519
Description
Cover: a drawing of a woman contemplating the city lights from her window; Publisher: Leo Feist Inc. (New York)
Subject Headings (Library of Congress)
Songs -- United States -- 20th Century; Popular Music -- United States
Relational Format
music score
Original Format
scores
Original Collection
Sheldon Harris Collection (MUM00682), Archives and Special Collections, University of Mississippi Libraries
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Lyrics
Lyrics:
First verse
Oh, let me live on Broadway, where the lights are all a-glow, Where ev'ryone seems happy in the crowds that come and go, Thus speaks the foolish dreamer, and he prays his dream come true, But he'd never leaave the village if he knew:
Chorus
There's a broken heart for ev'ry light on Broadway, A million tears for every gleam, they say, Those lights, above you, think nothing of you, It's those who love you that have to pay. There's a sorrow lurking in each gloomy shadow, And sorrow comes to ev'ryone some day, Twill come to our brothers, But think of the mothers with broken hearts for each light on Broadway.
Second verse
There's broken-hearted husbands, and there's broken-hearted wives, And broken-hearted sweethearts who must now lead double lives; And there's the boy and girl who thought twas right to take a chance, And they all must pay the fiddler, if they dance:
(Chorus)
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