I’d Love to Meet That Old Sweetheart of Mine

A popular song from 1926
Words and music by Benny Davis and Joe Burke

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The sheet music:

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Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:

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Lyrics

1. Days are dark and gloomy
   Skies are never blue
   Memories come to me
   Oh, what I go through
   Need someone to hold me
   Or my heart will break
   Someone to console me
   Just for old times sake

Chorus:
I’d love to meet that old sweetheart of mine
I wonder since she’s gone
How she’s been getting on
I’d love to greet that old sweetheart of mine
With just a kiss or two
The way I used to do
Sometimes while walking along
Things are wrong and I just wonder
If we should meet, on the street
Would she smile or turn away
Oh gee, if only for the sake of Auld Lang Syne
How I’d love to meet that old sweetheart of mine

2. When the world is sleeping
   ‘Neath the starlight skies
   I just lay there weeping
   Hardly close my eyes
   Seems that I’m forsaken
   Need you more and more
   And when I awaken
   I pray o’er and o’er

Recitation:
In my lonely room each night I sit
Just idly dreaming there
In vain I wait to hear my sweetheart’s
Footsteps on the stair
The ticking of the clock keeps time
With each beat of my lonely heart
And it seems to say, that is the way
You must pay for being apart
No one knows the anguish
And the sorrow I’ve gone through
But just the same, sweetheart, I pray
It never comes to you
If I could learn just how you are
And know that things are fair
It would make this lonely lot of mine
Much easier to bear
And I know through all my suffering
I’d find a way to smile
If I could see my old sweetheart
For just a little while
If only for the sake of “Auld Lang Syne”
How I’d love to meet that old sweetheart of mine

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Sung by Laurence Rubenstein
Guitar by Steve Rubenstein:

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