A popular ballad from 1909
Words and music by Thos. S. Allen
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- 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
- 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