Remember My Forgotten Man

Written for: Gold Diggers Of 1933 (1933)
Performer: Joan Blondell, Etta Moten & Studio Chorus
Lyric: Al Dubin
Music: Harry Warren
Year: 1933
Original publisher: M. Witmark & Sons, rights controlled by Remick Music Corp.

Verse 1:

I don't know if I deserve a bit of sympathy,
Save your sympathy, that's all right with me.
I was satisfied to drift along from day to day,
Till you came and took my man away.

Chorus:

Remember my forgotten man,
You put a rifle in his hand;
You sent him far away,
You shouted, "Hip, hooray!"
But look at him today!
Remember my forgotten man,
You made him cultivate the land;
He walked behind the plow,
The sweat fell from his brow,
But look at him right now!
And once, he used to love me,
I was happy then;
He used to take care of me,
Won't you bring him back again?
'Cause ever since the world began,
A woman's got to have a man;
Forgetting him, you see,
Means you're forgetting me
Like my forgotten man.

Verse 2 (from British sheet music):

Once I had a man and I thought he belonged to me,
He was mine, you see; he belonged to me.
Then he heard your call and soon I found my man was gone,
You said, "Just be brave and carry on!"

[Chorus]