vaudeville heartbreak

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QOnruGEB04

"WHY SHOULD I CARE?"
John Addison

'Why should I care?
Why should I let it touch me?
Why shouldn't I
Sit down and try
To let it pass over me?
Why should they say?
Why should I let it get me?
What's the use of despair
If they call you a square?
You're a long time dead --
Like my old pal Fred.
So why, oh why should I bother to care?
When they see that you're blue
They look down on you.
So why, oh why should I bother to care?'

-- Sung by Laurence Olivier in the film "The Entertainer" (1960