Smilin’ Through

Some World War I soldiers returned with a smile, 1918.
words and music by Arthur A. Penn

The sheet music:

Smilin-Through – Sheet MusicDownload

Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:

Smilin_Through – MIDIDownload

Lyrics

  1. There’s a little brown road
    Windin’ over the hill
    To a little white cot by the sea
    There’s a little green gate
    At whose trellis I wait
    While two eyes o’ blue
    Come smilin’ through at me
  2. There’s a gray lock or two
    In the brown of the hair
    There’s some silver in mine, too, I see
    But in all the long years
    When the clouds brought their tears
    Those two eyes o’ blue
    Kept smilin’ through at me
  3. And if ever I’m left
    In this world all alone
    I shall wait for my call patiently
    For if Heaven be kind
    I shall wake there to find
    Those two eyes o’ blue
    Still smilin’ through at me

Sung here by Fred Feild: