This song became wildly popular during World War II. It was published in 1941 and recorded for the 1942 musical mystery film Sweater Girl, where it was sung by Betty Jane Rhodes.
(Verse)
All our friends keep knocking at the door
They've asked me out a hundred times or more
But all I say is, "Leave me in the gloom"
And here I stay within my lonely room
'Cause
(Chorus)
I don't want to walk without you, baby
Walk without my arm about you, baby
I thought the day you left me behind
I'd take a stroll and get you right off my mind
But now I find
That I don't want to walk without the sunshine
Why'd you have to turn off all that sunshine?
Oh, baby, please come back or you'll break my heart for me
'Cause I don't want to walk without you
No, siree
(instrumental break)
I don't want to walk without the sunshine
Why'd you have to turn off all that sunshine?
Oh, baby, please come back or you'll break my heart for me
'Cause I don't want to walk without you
No, siree
I Don’t Want to Walk Without You was written by Jule Styne & Frank Loesser.
Jule Styne released I Don’t Want to Walk Without You on Wed Jan 01 1941.