So Long Letty

Transcript

If you should leave me, I don't know what I'd do. You're telling me, you're telling me, the little things I always knew. I'd be as lonely as any fellow that you know.

But you wouldn't be good. No, you couldn't be good. For they never made a fellow so.

Oh, yes I would. Oh, yes you would. I'd be foolish to believe in you.

Oh, yes I would. Oh, yes you'd, you'd, you'd, you'd. I'd like to know what you'd say.

I'll miss you so long, so long, lessee, if you go a new way so far. I'll kiss you so long, so long, lessee, and you know, for tonight is ever. I'll go your place, my heart will play with you, you'll leave your room behind you.

If you do so, if you love me, love me, stay, don't make me stay so long, lessee. I'll kiss you so long, so long, lessee, if you love me, love me, stay, don't make me stay so long, lessee. I'll call this evening and hold your hand just long.

That's a very nice, yes, a very nice, but it's pretty pale, you know. I'd spend each moment that I could really share with you. Well, that isn't a lot, no, it isn't a lot.

You might spend a little morning, too. I love both you. Oh, yes, you do.

Many girls are perfect dreamers, so. Oh, no, not I. Then tell me why you're going to know when I am gone. I'll miss you so long, so long, lessee, if you go on your way so far.

I'll kiss you so long, so long, lessee, and you know, for tonight is ever. I'll kiss you so long, so long, lessee, if you love me, love me, stay, don't make me stay so long, lessee.

Transcribed by AI from the recording above. These are noisy hundred-year-old cylinders, so expect misheard words and the occasional invented line — trust your ears over the text.