A popular song from 1923
Words by Gus Kahn
Music by Walter Donaldson
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- When I was younger, I used to hunger
To climb up the ladder of life
Now that I’ve grown up, I might as well own up
It’s not worth of worry and strife
Things that I wanted were paid
For blessings I can not recall
And all that I have I would trade
For the things I considered so small
Refrain:
I’d be more than satisfied
If I could hide away
Beside a babbling brook
Rippling waters call me far away
To quiet shady nook
Thru the woods I long to hike
To linger where the world is like a story book
Like a lazy daisy gazin’ at the sky
Let me live and love
And lеt the world go by
I’d be more than satisfied
If I could hide away
Beside a babbling brook
- I see a pond of lilies I’m fond of
And I see a rickety boat
Seemed for a minute that I was back in it
Forgetting and letting her float
While I was lazily dozing
Just dreaming and drifting along
I heard at the summer day’s closing
A whippoorwill singing my song
Sung here by Laurence Rubenstein: