An attractive, tender, appealing ballad, 1884.
words by G. Clifton Bingham
music by J. L. Molloy
An English song first published in London. It was written in the early 1880s. Its melody was composed by an Irish barrister (lawyer). First printed in the states in 1884. It became very popular in the U.S. by 1887.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment track:
Lyrics
- Once in the dear dead days beyond recall
When on the world the mists began to fall
Out of the dreams that rose in happy throng
Low to our hearts Love sang an old sweet song
And in the dusk where fell the firelight gleam
Softly it wove itself into our dream
Chorus
Just a song at twilight, when the lights are low
And the flickering shadows softly come and go
Though the heart be weary, sad the day and long
Still to us at twilight comes Love’s old song
Comes Love’s old sweet song
- Even today we hear Love’s song of yore
Deep in our hearts it dwells for evermore
Footsteps may falter, weary grow the way
Still we can hear it at the close of day
So till the end, when life’s dim shadows fall
Love will be found the sweetest song of all
Sung here by Fred Feild: