Tim Gracyk's video: Just A-Wearyin For You Elizabeth Spencer Edison cylinder Carrie Jacobs-Bond Frank Lebby Stanton

Just a-wearyin' for you. All the time a-feelin' blue. Wishin' for you, wonderin' when you’ll be coming home again. Restless, don’t know what to do. Just a-wearyin' for you. Morning comes--the birds awake, used to sing so for your sake. But there’s sadness in the notes that come trillin' from their throats. Seem to feel your absence, too. Just a-wearyin' for you. Evening comes--I miss you more when the dark gloom’s round the door. Seems just like you orter be there to open it for me. Latch goes tinkling, thrills me through, sets me wearyin’ for you-- just a-wearyin', dear, for you. "Just A-wearyin' for You" is a parlor song. The lyrics are given in a dialect form meant to suggest the speaker is not from the highest social class or a well-educated class. The lyrics were written by Frank Lebby Stanton and published in his Songs of the Soil (1894). The tune was composed by Carrie Jacobs-Bond and published as part of Seven Songs as Unpretentious as the Wild Rose in 1901. "Just A-Wearyin' For You" Elizabeth Spencer Edison cylinder Carrie Jacobs-Bond & Frank Lebby Stanton