Bring Back My Lena To Me 1910 Berlin

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 13 Nov 2012
2012

You know how you feel
when your rich Uncle dies,
and leaves you a lot and a house?
Well, that's how I felt
when I first met Miss Lena,
sweet little neat Lena Kraus.
I just hate to think
how she came in my life,
like a landlord
what comes for the rent.
The rent was my heart
when she took it apart
just how she came she went.

Oh when I think of my Lena
my face turns so white
just like starch;
the hand organs play
pretty love songs all day
but to me it's just plain fun'ral march.
It's bad to be sad,
to be glad when you're sad
can't be did as you all must agree.
If you feel like I feel
and you hear my appeal
Oh! bring back my Lena to me.

Oh when I think of my Lena
I think of a girl who could cook,
some sweet sauerkraut
that would swim in your mouth
like the fishes that swim in the brook.
When I think of a meal that was real
I just feel,
like a ship with no sail on the sea.
There's no tears in my eyes,
but my appetite cries
Oh! bring back my Lena to me.

I cry when I think
what a woman she was,
what cost dollars
she bought for a cent.
When she broke a glass
why it wouldn't be broke, ach!
no, it would only be bent.
To cry over milk
that's been spilt isn't good,
but the feeling
that I'm feeling now.
It wasn't just one glass
of milk that I spilt
when Lena went,
then went the cow.

Oh when I think of my Lena
my face turns so white
just like starch;
the hand organs play
pretty love songs all day
but to me it's just plain fun'ral march.
It's bad to be sad,
to be glad when you're sad
can't be did as you all must agree.
If you feel like I feel
and you hear my appeal
Oh! bring back my Lena to me.

Oh when I think of my Lena
I think of a girl who could cook,
some sweet sauerkraut
that would swim in your mouth
like the fishes that swim in the brook.
When I think of a meal that was real
I just feel,
like a ship with no sail on the sea.
There's no tears in my eyes,
but my appetite cries
Oh! bring back my Lena to me.

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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Bring Back My Lena To Me 1910 Berlin
by Berlin & Snyder
© 1910 by Ted Snyder Co.Inc.  N.Y.
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sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Tuesday 13 November 2012 at 17.51
in association with Veda Meyer-Castens
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