A popular song from 1912.
Words by Gordon V. Thompson.
Music by Lewis Owen.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- A happy pair they stroll along the shore
And tell their love amid the breakers’ roar
They soon must part, a sailor boy is he
But light their heart, a wedding soon will be
“Sweet heart, goodbye, I leave you just once more
Before I wed the one whom I adore
But look each day across the deep, deep blue
For the ship that will bring back your boy in blue”
Refrain
The moonbeams fall in silence on the lake
They hear her sigh as if her heart would break
But she waits there, a sweetheart ever true
Looking vainly for the coming of her boy in blue
- Alone she walks along the moonlit shore
And dreams of days that come again no more
Her golden locks are silver’d now with gray
No more her songs ring out across the bay
She looks in vain for him to come again
For he sleeps now beneath the deep blue main
But still she waits with heart that’s ever true
And she longs to see again her boy in blue