Remember My Forgotten Man (from Gold Diggers of 1933)

I don't know if he deserves a bit of sympathy

Forget your sympathy

That's all right with me

I was satisfied to drift along from day to day

Till they came and took my man away

Remember my forgotten man

You put a rifle in his hand

You sent him far away

You shoutedhip hooray

But look at him today

Remember my forgotten man

You had him cultivate the land

He walked behind the plow

The sweat fell from his brow

But look at him right now

And once

He used to love me

I was happy then

He used to take care of me

Won't you bring him back again

'Cause ever since the world began

A woman's got to have a man

Forgetting him

You see

Means you're forgetting me

Like my forgotten man