A popular song from 1917
Words by Edward Lockton
Music by Evelyn Sharpe
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
1. 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
Sung by Vancha March: