I Left My Heart At The Stage Door Canteen

Performed by Corporal Earl Oxford
Recorded July 30, 1942
Words and music by Irving Berlin
From the All-Soldier Show, "This Is The Army"

[voice]
Old Mister absent-minded that's me
Just as forgetful as I can be.
I've got the strangest sort of a mind.
I'm always leaving something behind.

[chorus]
I Left My Heart At The Stage Door Canteen
I left it there with a girl named Eileen
I kept her serving doughnuts
'till all she had were gone
I sat there dunking doughnuts
'til she caught on
I must go back to the Army routine.
And ev'ry doughboy knows what that will mean
A soldier boy without a heart
has two strikes on him from the start
and my heart's at the Stage Door Canteen

[lyrics modified from the original sheet music]