He’s Not Worth Your Tears
This song got fame from a recording by Jimmie Noone with a vocal chorus by Mildred Bailey.
I do an instrumental version. But if you’re out of luck in love and want to give air to your woes, the words are here:
The story's over he's gone away
But I'll be tortured day after day
By friends with good intentions who say
He's not worth your tears.
I know they think they're comforting me
But how mistaken people can be
Who say there's other fish in the sea
He's not worth your tears.
They never bother an old weeping willow
They leave it drooping there
So if I want to confide in my pillow
Why should strangers care.
My heart is filled with all it can hold
A good long cry might leave it consoled
And that's why I don't want to be told