A popular song from 1918
Words and music by Allen Spurr
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by Denese Coulbeck:
Lyrics
- Dreaming of the days gone by
When our love was new
We were sweethearts you and I
Happy were we two
Since our parting years ago
I’ve been ever true
Hear the message of this Rose
That I bring to you
Chorus:
Only a Rose of yesterday
Pledged in the bygone years
Let us again in memory stray
Back thro the smiles and tears
When we were sweethearts you and I
Vowing to e’er be true
Only this Rose of yesterday
Brings me, sweetheart, to you
- When you gave this rose to me
Filled with vows of love
Then you vowed to constant be
As the stars above
Let us pledge our love anew
Then ere life is o’er
We’ll be happy me and you
On love’s golden shore
Sung by Laurence Rubenstein: