A popular ballad from 1912
Words and music by Anita Owen
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- Can it be that you forget?
Dead to you the past?
Well I knew my dream of love
Far too sweet to last
Tho’ my heart be sad and sore
I would bear the pain
Just to feel the joy of yore
In my heart again
Refrain:
Can you forget those sweet days of yore?
Ah! love, can it be you forget?
Often in dreams I live them all o’er
Sweet memories of you haunt me yet, Ah!
I can’t forget the rapture and bliss
I loved you the moment we met
I can’t forget that first long sweet kiss
Ah! Love, how can you forget?
- Tho’ we wander far apart
Through the sunless years
One great joy shall fill my heart
Tho’ my eyes shed tears
Gone the past beyond recall
With its joy and pain
I would give the world and all
Just to dream again
Sung here by Vancha March: