When You're Good You're Lonesome
Composer(s): Grace Doro
Performer(s): Edythe Baker



I feel so sad and lonely I wish I knew just why 
Every one is happy
While all I do is sigh
I walk the straight and narrow path 
I'm good as I can be
Maybe that's just what is wrong
For it seems to me

My mother always told me "Be very, very good" 
I took her advice
Like a good child always should
I went to bed at eight o'clock 
But what did that get me? 
I have missed an awful lot
Now I plainly see

When you are good, you're so lonesome
And when you're lonesome you're blue 
Sometimes it seems very hard to believe 
Every dark cloud has a silver lining 
I think it'll get me a sweetie who'll make a fuss over me
Just love and pet me all the day
Then I'll never have to say 
When you are good you're so lonesome
And when you're lonesome you're blue