Added to a Summer Edition of “THE COCOANUTS”, 1926 New Summer Edition). Words and Music by Irving Berlin. Cover Art by Sydney Leff. Copyright ©28 Jun 1926. Sheet Music from the collection of Michael Deatz.
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Every now and then you ask me why I love you
Why it is that I’m forever thinking of you
Every now and then I pause
Trying hard to find the cause
And tho’ it’s true that I love you
It’s hard to say just why I do, but
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Why do you want to know why?
Does it matter just why
I love you ‘long as I do?
Hope to die, I’d be willing to try
But I couldn’t tell why
I only know that I do
Maybe it’s because
You came my way when I was blue
Maybe it’s because
I heard you say, “I’m lonely, too”
Maybe away up high in the blue of the sky
They could tell you just why
I love you as much as I do