a 1922 popular song
words by Gus Kahn
music by Isham Jones
The sheet music:
Accompaniment – QRS #2207 player piano roll:
Lyrics
- Out of the dear long ago
I hear a song sweet and low
Drifting, it seems, out of the dreams
Dreams that we used to know, dear
Chorus
Just a broken hearted melody
Just a song that ends with a sigh
Like the sweet refrain you sang to me
On the night we said goodbye, dear
Playing on the strings of memory
Singing of the days that used to be
Saying, dear, I want you near to hear me:
Broken hearted melody
- Soft is the nightingale’s call
Sweet are the rose leaves that fall
But love’s old song drifting along
Seems to me best of all, dear
Sung here by Fred Feild: