Joe Young (July 4, 1889 – April 21, 1939)[1] was an American lyricist, born in New York as Joseph Judewitz to immigrant Jewish parents.

[1] An early work is the song "Way Down East" (1910), with words by Cecil Mack, music by Young and Harold Norman, published by Gotham-Attucks Music Publishing Company.

[citation needed] For the 1931 Broadway show The Laugh Parade, Young collaborated with co-lyricist Mort Dixon and composer Harry Warren on "You're My Everything".

[1] The show also included: Young's last work was the pop standard "I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter", written with Fred Ahlert in 1935.

[1] He died in New York in 1939[1] and was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970.