Where Are the Scenes of Yesterday

A popular ballad from 1909
Words and music by Thos. S. Allen


The sheet music:


Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:


Lyrics

  1. Childhood days were happy
    Though they’ve passed away
    When we bring them back to mind
    They seem like yesterday
    There’s the same old schoolyard
    Where we met each morn’
    Those were happy days we spent
    Pray tell me where they’ve gone

Chorus:
Where are the scenes of yesterday
Where are the friends we knew
Where are the playmates we used to have
And sweethearts fond and true
I’d like to wander back again
Thro’ years that have passed away
For no one can tell what tomorrow brings
Until it is yesterday

  1. When we had a sweetheart
    It would be the rule
    Always take the longest way
    When coming home from school
    Father Time is busy
    On the great big dial
    If he’d turn the hands back once
    For just a little while

Chorus:
Back to the scenes of yesterday
Back to the friends we knew
Back to the playmates we used to have
And sweethearts fond and true
I’d like to wander back again
Thro’ years that have passed away
For no one can tell what tomorrow brings
Until it is yesterday