(m. John Kellette, w. Jaan Kenbrovin, -1919) Introduced in The Passing Show of 1918, it was first sung by Helen Carrington. When the song was written, James Kendis, James Brockman, and Nat Vincent all had separate contracts with publishers, which led them to use the pseudonym "Jaan Kenbrovin" for credit on this song. James Kendis and James Brockman were partners in the Kendis-Brockman Music Company, which first published the song. Publishing rights were transferred later that year to Jerome H. Remick & Co. The writer Ring Lardner parodied the lyric during the Black Sox scandal of 1919, when he began to suspect that players on the Chicago White Sox team were deliberately losing the World Series to the Cincinnati Reds. His version began "I'm forever blowing ballgames".
