A popular song from 1916
Words and music by William H. Perrins
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by Denese Coulbeck:
Lyrics
- There are millions of people today
Who are seeking to find out the way
Where real happiness lies
On the earth, In the skies
Or within the blue depths of a true woman’s eyes
There are some that want riches and power
And they seek for them ‘most every hour
How I wish they but knew that for happiness true
There is only one way, and I’ll tell it to you
Chorus:
At the end of a beautiful day
If you’re glad, ’cause your heart seems to say
That you’ve been true and kindly
You’ve righted a wrong
And you’ve given your smiles to help others along
If there’s somebody’s burden of care
That you’re willing and ready to share
Then your heart’s made of gold
And your joys are untold
At the end of a beautiful day
- There are kings in their palaces grand
There are magnates with acres of land
There are those that have schemes
But they fade into dreams
And then ‘most everybody has something it seems
But none of them happiness bring
And that is life’s most precious thing
But this much is true that for me and for you
There is only one pathway for us to pursue