I Wonder Where My Baby Is Tonight?

All alone, I'm so all alone
Come in
Hello, Harry
Hello, old scout
Why, hello, boys. So you've come around to cheer me up, eh?
Yes, no use making a hermit of yourself, Harry, because of a girl
Come on, snap out of it, old man
It isn't worth it, Harry, I know
Yes, you may know, but I'm through

I've burned up every letter
And thought that I'd feel better
I've put away her picture too
Sent back each little present
And though it wasn't pleasant
It seemed the wisest thing to do
I've done everything I could and yet
(And yet you pine and sigh)
It isn't very easy to forget
(You can if you try)

I wonder where my baby is tonight
(Oh, dear, and please you write)
I wonder how my baby is tonight
(Don't think of her just for spite)
I wonder where she's gone
And how she's getting on
I wonder why my baby doesn't write

If she came back, I wonder what I'd do
(There's many more to be found)
I wonder has she found somebody new
(So many others around)
She didn't treat me fair
And though I shouldn't care
I wonder where my baby is tonight

I wouldn't feel that way, old kid
I've suffered too, old topper
I'm just a cast-off popper
Some Charleston hound has my gal now
(You tell 'em, Billie)
I couldn't do the dumb thing
My feet aren't made for something
Of course I couldn't teach her how

I don't pine and let the world look black, not me
I'll learn the Charleston and I'll win her back
(Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo)
I wonder does my baby do the Charleston, Bill
Maybe she does, say, it might pay you to
Learn to do the Charleston, Charleston
While you sit and sigh, the time goes dragging by
I'd like to kill the guy who wrote that Charleston
Attaboy
I'm gonna win my gal back with the Charleston
(While you're teaching her how)
You might get yours back if you could Charleston, Charleston
Let's learn it right away
Then we'll no longer say
I wonder where my baby is tonight

But in the meanwhile
I wonder where my baby is tonight