I Want Somebody's Love – A Waif Song –

                     I

I want somebody’s love to-night,

     My heart is full of woe;

I hear but harsh and careless words,

     Wherever I may go;

No friends have I in all the world,

     They all have passed above;

To-night I’m sad and all alone,

     I want somebody’s love.

              Chorus

Somebody’s love somebody’s love,

     I care not whose it be;

If only it be pure and true,

     With one small share for me.

Somebody’s love, somebody’s love,

     O, send it, God above!

Somebody’s love for me tonight,

     I want somebody’s love.

                 II

The great world rushes on so fast,

     It never stops to see;

It never listens to the cry

     Of lonesome souls like me.

But out of all this endless throng,

     That rudely past me shove,

There must be one heart tuned to mine,

     There must be one to love.

              Chorus

Somebody’s love somebody’s love,

     I care not whose it be;

If only it be pure and true,

     With one small share for me.

Somebody’s love, somebody’s love,

     O, send it, God above!

Somebody’s love for me tonight,

     I want somebody’s love.

Written on a Camb. West End Car

returning from Boston, 5 PM

Jan. 26, 1895                           

Pub. in B. Travelor                  

Aug. 2, ‘95

Copied in Hfd. Times

July 17, 1895