A popular song from 1910.
Words and music by Chas. K. Harris.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- The brown-stone mansion glittered
With a thousand beams of light
The husband stood beside the open door
“I’m going to the club” he said
“I’ll not be home tonight
Here’s something that I brought you from the store”
He took a diamond necklace
From the pocket of his coat
And gave it to the woman he had wed
She seemed to grow so old
As she shuddered in the cold
And to the husband waiting there she said
Chorus
“Don’t give me diamonds, all I want is you
I want your love dear, I want you to be true
Precious jewels, showers of gold
Cannot change a love that’s cold
Don’t give me diamonds
For all I want is you”
- A year has passed and all alone
The husband sits at night
And dreams of her, his loyal loving wife
He knows too late, he’s lost her love
The love so staunch and true
To win it back he’d gladly give his life
He holds her picture in his hands
And kisses her dear face
In sorrow that no mortal tongue can tell
She’s happier in that home
From which there’s no return
And now too late recalls her words so well
Sung here by Laurence Rubenstein: