[Dixielandjazz] Re: What's the use? Lyrics

[Bill Haesler]

Dear Dick,
Transcribed (by me) from the Isham Jones version recorded in Chicago for
Brunswick on 13 May 1930.

"What's The Use?"
(1930. Isham Jones, music - Charles Newman, lyrics.)

"I try to smile, and pretend all the while,
But since you went away what's the use?

I try to clown just to hide every frown,
But my heart seems to say, what's the use?

I built each dream that I dreamed, just for you.
How can they ever come true?

I need you more, now than ever before,
But you closed Heaven's door, so what's the use?"

And if anyone listening-in want's to know why you would want to bother about
this song, tell 'em to listen to the Bud Freeman & His Gang Commodore
version from 12 July 1938 with Bobby Hackett, Pee Wee Russell, Dave
Matthews, Bud Freeman, Jess Stacy, Eddie Condon, Artie Shapiro and Marty
Marsala replacing  Dave Tough (but that's another story).

Kind regards,
Bill.