I've Got To Sing A Torch Song

Written for: Gold Diggers Of 1933 (1933)
Performer: Dick Powell; Ginger Rogers (OUT-TAKE)
Lyric: Al Dubin
Music: Harry Warren
Year: 1933
Original publisher: M. Witmark & Sons, rights controlled by Remick Music Corp.

Verse:

A clown can laugh when he's unhappy,
Sometimes I wish I were a clown.
I'd like to sing away my sorrow,
Ev'ry sorrow, ev'ry frown.
A lively jingle never cheers me,
I sing of love, but no one hears me.

Chorus:

I've got to sing a torch song,
For that's the way I feel;
When I feel a thing,
Then I can sing, 
It must be real.
I couldn't sing a gay song,
It wouldn't be sincere,
I could never croon
A happy tune
Without a tear.
I have my dreams, but one by one,
They vanish in the sky;
I try to smile and face the sun,
But romance passes by.
I've got to sing a torch song
To someone far apart,
For the torch I bear
Is burning there,
Right in my heart.