A popular song from 1919
Words and music by Al Piantadosi
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by Denese Coulbeck:
Lyrics
- As the church bell tolls two lonely souls
Are drifting on life’s sea
The greater love was born above
‘Twas meant for them to be
She meant no wrong, she went along
On the path that lead astray
He was to blame for all her shame
“Forgive” you hear him say
Chorus:
The woman whom thou gavest me
Was sent from the Heaven above
A soul so divine, she was meant to be mine
To have and to hold and to love
I knew someone held us apart
Somehow she belonged to me
A voice never dies, “I love her” it cries
The woman thou gavest me
- I just seemed to live each memory
A voice kept calling me
My very soul it seemed to know
Her heart was longing so
She gave her all for love’s sweet call
For it was the only way
There was no sin, love lived within
“Obey” it seemed to say