A popular song from 1917
Words by Edward Lockton
Music by Evelyn Sharpe
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
Though I am far beyond the ocean blue
Each lonely hour my heart remembers you
Each tender look, each word I used to know
Comes back to me from out the long ago
Refrain:
When the great red dawn is shining
When the waiting hours are past
When the tears of night are ended
And I see the day at last
I shall come down the road of sunshine
To a heart that is fond and true
When the great red dawn is shining
Back to home, back to love, and you
2. Dark is the world, but still I wait and pray
Thro’ every hour to see the rising day
That golden day that dawns on grief and pain
That day of love that calls me home again