A popular song from 1914.
Words by Stanley Murphy.
Music by George Botsford.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- Billy Boy, with joy I read your letter over
And I want you to come down
On a little trip, right over to old Dover
Just to see the old home town
There’s a sweet old couple
Longing for you all the time
Twill cheer them up a lot to see their boy
And there a little sweetheart, too
Who’s fondly waiting
Come and fill her heart with joy
Chorus
Come over, come over, come over to Dover
Oh won’t you come over
We’ll ramble through the clover
It’s the same old, tame old, fashioned town
With all the same old friends around to greet you
There’s a vacant chair down there for you
And there’s a vacant heart
That’s aching, too, for you
Oh, won’t you come over, come over to Dover
To the town where you were born
- You remember when we wander’d in the wildwood
When the leaves were turning gold
Come and ramble as we did in days of childhood
In those happy days of old
And when the moon is shining down in lover’s lane
And little stars are peeping up above
You’ll find your heart will want to stay
In dear old Dover
With the little girl you love