"It's a Lonesome Old Town" — Tobias and Klenner's 1930 isolation.
It's a lonesome old town, when you're not around, I'm lonely, as I can be.
I never knew how much I missed you, but now I can plainly see.
It's a lonesome old town, when you're not around,
How I wish you'd come back to me.
(musical interlude)
I never knew how much I missed you, but now I can plainly see.
It's a lonesome old town, when you're not around,
How I wish you'd come back to me.
How I wish you'd come back to me.
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- Written by Charles Tobias and Henry Klenner in 1930. The city as a lonely place without the absent person — the paradox that the most crowded environments produce the sharpest loneliness. From the In the Wee Small Hours era of sustained late-night ballads.