I Left My Heart At The Stage Door Canteen
Words and music by Irving Berlin
From the All-Soldier Show, "This Is The Army"
Published 1942

[voice]
Old Mister absent-minded that's me
Just as forgetful as I can be.
I've got the strangest sort of 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