Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone

Words & Music by

Sidney Clare, Sam H. Stept & Bee Palmer (1930)

(from "Lullaby Of Broadway")

 

Think you don't know this one?  Oh, yes you do!  It is one of the songs sung by Michigan J. Frog in the Warner Bros. classic, "One Froggy Evening".  If you need help with the tune (especially for the intro - more accurately called the verse), go to Jim Bottorff's page (www.jbott.com) where he has a MIDI of it  [scroll down!].

 

VERSE:

C                Em     C7   F                    C

Years we've been together--, seems we can't get along.

C         F#dim7 G7                       G+  C  G7

No matter what I do, it don't appeal to you.

C        Em    C7   F                         C

Makes no diff'rence whether I am right or I'm wrong.

G              E7           Am   D7   G       G7

If we can't be sweethearts, this much you can do...

 

CHORUS:

C                  E7               A7

Please don't talk about me when I'm gone, oh, my darling!

D7                    G7              C    G7

Though our friendship ceases from now on.

C                E7              A7

If you can't say anything that's nice,

     D7                 G7               C   Fm  C

Then best don't talk at all; that's my advice,

 

BRIDGE:

E7                                  A7

You go your way, I'll go mine, it's best that we do.

D7                                       F7              F7+

Here's a kiss -- I hope that this brings lots of luck to you!

 

CHORUS:  [2^nd half only, new words]

C                   E7          A7

Makes no difference how I carry on, oh, honey.

D7                G7                C

Please don't talk about me when I'm gone!