A popular song from 1917.
words and music by Tony Jackson, Ed. Rose, and Abe Olman
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- Altho’ it’s spring the birds don’t sing
You’re leaving me today
It’s not the first time my poor heart
Has been in pain this way
In winter time you’re good and kind
Forever by my side
But when summer’s near you disappear
Don’t even say goodbye
You’re goin’ to long for me some day
But I’ll be far away
Chorus
‘Cause when the cold wind does blow
With its ice and its snow
Then your heart soon will melt
For each sorrow I have felt
And when your friends turn away
Time will prove what I say
Now’s your time, I’ll have mine
Some sweet day
- Your note received this winter’s eve
You’re coming home, you say
You don’t know how my heart has grieved
Since you have gone astray
Each night it seems in all my dreams
Your smiling face I see
Then dawn appears once more my tears
Cry out for sympathy
No, it’s not sympathy for you
‘Cause you and I are through
Sung here by Fred Feild: