(Words & music: Roy Turk / Lou Handman)
Are you lonesome tonight,
do you miss me tonight?
Are you sorry we drifted apart?
Does your memory stray to a brighter sunny day
When I kissed you and called you sweetheart?
Do the chairs in your parlor seem empty and bare?
Do you gaze at your doorstep and picture me there?
Is your heart filled with pain, shall I come back again?
Tell me dear, are you lonesome tonight? I wonder if youere lonesome tonight
You know someone said that the worldes a stage
And each must play a part.
Fate had me playing in love you as my sweet heart.
Act one was when we met, I loved you at first glance You read your line so cleverly and never missed a cue
Then came act two, you seemed to change and you acted strange
And why Iell never know.
Honey, you lied when you said you loved me
And I had no cause to doubt you. But Ied rather go on hearing your lies
Than go on living without you.
Now the stage is bare and Iem standing there
With emptiness all around
And if you wonet come back to me
Then they can bring the curtain down.
Is your heart filled with pain, shall I come back again?
Tell me dear, are you lonesome tonight?
Recorded: 1960/04/03, first released on single