Thanks for the try, but no. The words I printed in my post above are pretty close to the song. That Berman song isn’t the one. Again, thanks.
I suspect that the 78 I’m looking for was made in the 20’s, but it may have been in the 30’s. My mom and dad had it, and I probably wore the groove wider in it playing it as much as I did when I was a teen! ... on the old Victrola, of course.
I think this is it!
Partial sheet music: http://lib.indstate.edu/about/units/rbsc/kirk/PDFs/ps1910_morning_after.pdf
Cylinder recording: http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/search.php?queryType=@attr%201=1020&num=1&start=1&query=cylinder7236
The composer: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Fred_Helf