Beside a Garden Wall

A popular song from 1926
Words by Gus Kahn
Music by Albert E. Short and Del Delbridge


The sheet music:


Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:


Lyrics

  1. Gray September sky
    Do you hear me sigh
    While the last red rose of summer
    Whispers its goodbye
    Tiny fading rose
    Ere the songbird goes
    Send this message to the one
    Who left me wond’ring why

Chorus:
Did you forget that day in May
Beside a garden wall
The dreams we dreamed
The while we watched
The springtime blossoms fall
Summer is ending
Do you recall
That day in May we dreamed of love
Beside garden wall

  1. Does that day in May
    Seem as far away
    For in dreams to me it seems
    ‘Twas only yesterday
    When the ev’ning star
    Beams where e’er you are
    Does that nightwind whisper to you
    All my heart would say?

Sung by Laurence Rubenstein: