Let the Rest of the World Go By

A western ballad from 1919.
words by J. Keirn Brennan
music by Ernest R. Ball

The war had been disturbing. Life in the east was complex. Here we have an alternative image of contentment and security.

The sheet music:

Let-the-Rest-of-the-World-Go-by – Sheet MusicDownload

Accompaniment track:

Let-the-Rest-of-the-World-Go-By – MIDIDownload

Lyrics

  1. Is the struggle and strife, we find in this life
    Really worth while after all?
    I’ve been wishing today, I could just run away,
    Out where the west winds call

Refrain
With someone like you, a pal good and true
I’d like to leave it all behind, and go and find
Some place that’s known to God alone
Just a spot to call our own
We’ll find perfect peace, where joys never cease
Out there beneath a kindly sky (kindly sky)
We’ll build a sweet little nest somewhere in the west
And let the rest of the world go by

  1. Is the future to hold, just struggles for gold
    While the real world waits outside
    Away out on the breast, of the wonderful west
    Across the great Divide?

Sung here by Fred Feild: