When You Sang Soprano

(And I Sang Baritone)
A song from 1917.
Words by J. E. Dempsey.
Music by Jos. A. Burke and Earl Burtnett.

The sheet music:

When-You-Sang-Soprano – SHEET MUSICDownload

Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:

When_You_Sang_Soprano – MIDIDownload

Lyrics

  1. Two whole years of married life
    Two whole years you’ve been my wife
    It doesn’t seem a single day too long
    In the fillage choir we’d sing
    Hymns that made the chapel ring
    But all the time our hearts sang loves sweet song
    And since the day that you said yes to me
    We’ve lived and loved in perfect harmony

Chorus
When you sang soprano and I sang baritone
In the old village choir way down home
Just like our voices, our hearts began to sing
In springtime I brought you a ring
Now we’ve got a little bass
Running all around the place
For our family has grown
Since you sang soprano and I sang baritone
In the old village choir way down home

  1. Ev’ry time a church bell rings
    Something in its music brings
    Fond recollections and we seem to be
    Singing in the choir again
    Heave surely blessed us then
    For God was good when he gave you to me
    Long years from now when our grandchildren climb
    Upon our knees, we’ll tell them of the time