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Thread #139762   Message #3219851
Posted By: Jim Dixon
07-Sep-11 - 10:08 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Songs of The Happiness Boys/Jones & Hare
Subject: Lyr Add: MAYBE (SHE'LL WRITE ME...SHE'LL PHONE ME)
From the sheet music at Mississippi State University. (Click for a PDF.)

MAYBE (SHE'LL WRITE ME, MAYBE SHE'LL 'PHONE ME)
Words, Roy Turk. Music, Ted Snyder & Fred E. Ahlert
New York: Waterson, Berlin & Snyder Co., ©1924.

1. I've got trouble, oh, what trouble!
Something happened to me!
Came home one day and I found
My sweet one wasn't around.
Haven't heard a single word about the cause of it all.
That's why I'm full of the blues,
Just waiting round for some news.

CHORUS: Maybe she'll write me. Maybe she'll phone me. Maybe she'll radio.
Went away Monday, here it is Sunday, just a long week ago.
I don't know where she went or what made her go.
One thing I know: I'm feelin' mighty worried.
Maybe she's lonesome, all by her "ownsome," longin' for who-knows-what.
Maybe she's sighin'. Maybe she's cryin'. Then again, maybe not.
I don't care what she did or where she went or why she left,
As long as she only hurries back home to me.

2. Always lonely, but I'm only
Getting what I deserve.
I should have known at the start
Someday she'd ruin my heart.
But I'm praying she is saying just what I'm saying now,
For then she'll worry and cry,
And change her mind by and by. CHORUS TWICE


YouTube has 2 versions:
Billy Jones & Ernest Hare. They stick pretty close to the sheet music, except that they change the pronouns as necessary to transform the song into a dialogue.
Ian Whitcomb and Janet Klein They sing an additional chorus which I assume is their own composition.