(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
- 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
- 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