Just Awearyin' for You

The tune was composed by Carrie Jacobs-Bond and published as part of Seven Songs as Unpretentious as the Wild Rose in 1901.

Although Stanton originally wrote the lyrics in dialect ("Jes' a-wearyin' fer you") for a column in the Atlanta Constitution, the song has generally circulated with the more mainstreamed diction of the Jacobs-Bond version.

Sentimental yet artful,[2] "Just Awearyin' for You" has been recorded by numerous performers, including Elizabeth Spencer, Evan Williams, Anna Case,[3] Sophie Braslau,[4] Eleanor Steber,[5] Gladys Swarthout,[6] Thomas Allen and Malcolm Martineau (piano),[7] Johnny Hartman,[8] John Arwyn Davies,[9] Jane Morgan,[10] Peggy Balensuela (mezzo soprano) and William Hughes (piano),[11] Bing Crosby (1934 and 1945)[12] and Paul Robeson.

[14][15] Set to the key of C, "Just Awearyin' for You" appears in Mel Bay's Modern Guitar Method Grade 6.

[17] Prior to publication with her tune, Jacobs-Bond was unaware that the lyrics were written by Stanton; she thought them anonymous as indicated in the Chicago newspaper from which she took them.