Tho’ the Silver Threads Are ’mong the Gold

(I Love You Just the Same)
A popular song from 1911
Words and music by W. R. Williams


The sheet music:


Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:


Lyrics

  1. It’s forty years or more, my dear
    Since you and I first met
    And as we go down memory lane
    I haven’t one regret
    Like wine, with age, you’re sweeter
    Since the day you answered “yes”
    We’ve understood each other
    In our home of happiness
    Of course we’ve had the ups and downs
    That come in every life
    But through the smiles and through the frowns
    I’m proud to call you wife
    We’ve jogged along together
    In our own old fashioned way
    And you’re still the same sweetheart to me
    And so I want to say

Chorus:
Many years since first we met dear
Tho’ it seems but yesterday
And I know we can’t forget, dear
Love, true love has found the way
Long the road we’ve been together
Hand in hand, whatever came
Dear old pal through stormy weather
Tho’ the silver threads are ‘mong the gold
I love you just the same

  1. I ‘member childhood’s happy days
    We learned the golden rule
    And days when I was fighting
    For the sweetest girl in school
    The blush of girlish innocence
    Was on your sun-kissed cheek
    I called you nature’s fairest flower
    Tho’ found it hard to speak
    The first time that I called on you
    T’was at my own request
    You wore your Sunday meeting frock
    I too had on my best
    Though everyone to Father Time
    Some day in reverence bends
    And our wedding day is long since passed
    Our courting never ends