A 1922 popular song.
Words and music by Gloria Marshall.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- Summers come and summers go
Life is just a game you know
Some are happy, some are sad
And some flit to and fro
Some do this and some do that
Others wear the victor’s cap
Here they come and there they go
Some long for worldly show
Chorus
But I long for you as all lovers do
When the shades of eve are falling
To roam with you ‘neath the sky so blue
And list to the whippoorwill calling
Oh that I might tell you how I love you
Just to feel the touch of your dear hand
I sit and sigh with a tear dimmed eye
When twilight hours are falling
Where ere I roam come thoughts of home
And songs of the whippoorwill calling
- As you journey down life’s way
You are happy some may say
But I know you wear a mask
You’re missing love each day
Life is all a dream of you
And a bluebird home for two
Do for others as you may
I wonder does it pay?
Sung here by Fred Feild: