(By the Echo of Your Last Good-bye)
A popular song of 1934
Words by Billy Rose
Music by Basil G. Adlam
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
Lights are soft and low tonight
Summer breezes blow tonight
And to think that we’re apart of
Knowing you refuse to love
Someone that you used to love
There’s a chill within my heart
I hate to be alone, when evening falls
I’m so afraid of all these empty halls
Doors and walls
Chorus:
The house is haunted
By the echo of your last good-bye
The house is haunted
By the memories that refuse to die
I can’t get away from a vision that brings
Intimate glimpses of intimate things
A voice in my heart like a torch singer sings
“I wonder who’s kissing her now?”
The house is haunted
By the echo of your favorite song
The place is cluttered up with roses
That have lived too long, much too long
The ceiling is white, but the shadows are black
A ghost in my heart says, “She’ll never come back”
The house is haunted
By the echo of your last good-bye