From the musical “The Fattest Calf”, 1915.
Words by R. Cutler.
Music by F. Hyde.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment:
Lyrics
- In the bygone days
Dear romantic days
Love was more than song
Hearts were strong and men’s friendships were long
Pas and Mas were true
And the Renos few
And marriage vows were kept up forever
In the days that father knew
Chorus
Sing me a quaint old love song
Sing me a song of yore
Something not sung by ev’ry vulgar throng
Free from a syncopated score (my darling)
Sing me of Annie Laurie
Or of Clementine
Oh! sing me some sweet song of the past
And tell me you’ll be mine
- In the modern days
All our ragtime lays
Played on graphophones
Tell of Sue and her beau Johnny Jones
Irving Berlin’s rot
And the Castle’s trot
And all this modern music is trash, you know
Real love is quite forgot
Sung here by Vancha March: