Concert Garden~

It was in a concert garden

And the fun was at its height,

And I’ll tell you boys, the wine began to flow;

When a young man in the corner

Slowly rose with hat in hand;

Said it’s surely growing late boys, I must go.

 

Chorus:

Somebody’s waiting for me.

Sombody loves’ me I know.

Somebody’s wonderin’ where I can be,

And what can be keeping me so.

Somebody’s heart is sad-

Waiting so anxiously.

There’s a light shinin’ bright

In a window tonight

And somebody’s waiting for me.

 

Oh you must have a sweetheart

Someone in the crowd exclaimed.

As they handed poor Jack his package due.

So he said, “Come go with me;

“I will show her to you boys.

“She’s the only sweetheart that I ever knew.”

 

Then he led them to a cottage

Pointed through the window pane

Where an old mother sat with bowed down head.

She’s my mother; She’s my sweetheart.

She’s the one I meant tonight.

So you see I told the truth boys when I said.

 

Chorus:

Somebody’s waiting for me.

Sombody loves’ me I know.

Somebody’s wonderin’ where I can be,

And what can be keeping me so.

Somebody’s heart is sad-

Waiting so anxiously.

There’s a light shinin’ bright

In a window tonight

And somebody’s waiting for me.

 

Dad rarely sang this one.  I don’t remember it on the “programme” very often but I do remember distinctly the first time it fully pierced my heart and I truly heard the words.  I memorized it the next day.  It’s probably the song I still sing around my house and in the car the most.

 

… Somebody’s waiting for me…