A 1904 popular song.
Words by Glen Mac Donough.
Music by Victor Herbert.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- When life seems gray and dark the dawn and you are blue
There is they say on such a morn one thing to do
Rise up and ring, a bellboy call to you straight way
And bid him bring a cold and tall absinthe frappe
Refrain
It will free you first from the burning thirst
That is born of a night of the bowl
Like a sun ’twill rise through the inky skies
That so heavily hang o’er your soul
At the first cool sip on your fevered lip
You determine to live through the day
Life’s again worth while as with dawning smile
You imbibe your absinthe frappe
- The deed is done so waste no woe o’er yestereen
Nor swear to shun a year or so the festive scene
Remorse will pass depair will fade with speed away
Before a glass of rightly made absinthe frappe
Sung here by Alejandro Murgia: