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Lyr Req: Why Should I Cry Over You (Conn/Miller)

01 Jul 01 - 03:01 PM (#495955)
Subject: Why Should I Cry Over You
From: GUEST,hrdan1@juno.com

Need lyrics for "Why Should I Cry Over You"......reorded by Freddie Hart years ago. Not the same as a song recorded by Frank Sinatra, although is the same title.


01 Jul 01 - 06:38 PM (#496097)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Why Should I Cry Over You
From: GUEST,Gene

Why should I cry over someone like you
When you never cried over me

Trying to remember who dunnit? ET??


01 Jul 01 - 06:44 PM (#496103)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Why Should I Cry Over You
From: GUEST,Gene

Found a listing by Bob Atcher on an old R-T-Reel....

Why Should I Cry Over You...


01 Jul 01 - 07:05 PM (#496120)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Why Should I Cry Over You
From: Sandy Paton

Edna Poplin (the Poplin Family of South Carolina -- we have an older Folkways LP of their music), wrote a song with that title that starts:

Sit at home, the telephone
Don't ring any more,
Why should I cry over you?
Low and lonely, sad and blue,
Sittin' here, baby, just thinkin' of you,
Why should I cry over you?

That's pretty obscure, and probably not the one you're looking for, but...what the heck...no harm in asking.

Sandy


25 Mar 02 - 09:56 PM (#676294)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Why Should I Cry Over You
From: Jim Dixon

According to AMG, there are at least 2 songs called "Why Should I Cry over You?"

One written by Chester Conn and Ned Miller, copyright 1922, and recorded by Frank Sinatra, Peggy Lee, and others;

And one written and recorded by Adolph Hofner. It appears on the album "South Texas Swing," 1980, Arhoolie #7029, which is a reissue of old 78's mainly from the 1930's and 40's. I assume this is the one you want.

Barnes and Noble has a sound sample from which I was able to transcribe this much:

"…cry over you?
Why should I feel blue?
I wished, I hoped that you'd play fair
But all along you didn't care
So why should I cry over you?"

I couldn't find any more lyrics, though.


25 Mar 02 - 10:14 PM (#676299)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Why Should I Cry Over You
From: masato sakurai

The Ned Miller and Chester Cohn song, which is not the one, is in Levy.

~Masato


30 Mar 02 - 05:46 PM (#679707)
Subject: Lyr Add: WHY SHOULD I CRY OVER YOU (Eddy Arnold)
From: GUEST,Gene

Is this it???

WHY SHOULD I CRY OVER YOU
Recorded by: Eddy Arnold

Why Should I Cry Over you, Dear
When you Never Cried over Me
You Want to Take Without Giving
That's Why our Hearts Disagree

You Called our Dream World a Prison
But From Now on you'll Be Free
Why Should I Cry over you, Dear
When You Never Cried over Me

[both verses repeated with minor differences]

Why Should I Cry Over you, Dear
When you Never Cried over Me
You Want to Take Without Giving
[And] That's Why our Hearts Disagree

You Called our Dream World a Prison
But From Now on you'll Be Free
Why Should I Cry over [yo-ou-u]
When You Never Cried over Me

SOURCE: EDDY ARNOLD-THE TENNESSEE PLOWBOY COLLECTION


30 Mar 02 - 06:39 PM (#679727)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Why Should I Cry Over You
From: GUEST

Those last lyrics pretty much sum up my view of the late Queen Mother


31 Mar 02 - 10:21 AM (#680119)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Why Should I Cry Over You
From: Louie Roy

Ernest Tubbs recorded a song in 1948 titled I'll never cry over you dear and it has the same words in it that Jim Dixon posted.If this is the one let me know and I'll Post.Louie Roy