A sentimental love song from 1899.
Words by Seymour Rice and Albert H. Brown.
Music by Charles N. Daniels.
This waltz song is old-fashioned now. It starts with childhood sweethearts. They get married. Then the woman, Mary, dies and Tom is left alone. Over the years the lyrics have been changed to be more up-to-date. There was a fox trot version of the chorus published in 1928.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment:
Lyrics
- Two little children one morning, after their breakfast was o’er
Were laughing and playing together, alone on the dining room floor
The girl of a dream had been talking
But refused with a toss of her head
To tell it all to her playmate, until he coaxingly said
Chorus
You had a dream, well, I had one, too
I know mine’s best ’cause it was of you
Come sweetheart tell me, now is the time
You tell me your dream, I’ll tell you mine
- Tom said, “I dreamed you had promised
that some day we should be wed”
“Why that’s just exactly like my dream,” Mary then blushingly said
Time they say brings many changes
But their love no change ever knew
And so they were happily married
The dream of their childhood came true - Sadness has entered the household
Where happiness once reigned supreme
The sunshine of life now has vanished
Grief has dispelled their bright dream
For Mary his kind loving helpmate, had yesterday passed away
And in sorrow Tom thinks of the morning
When in childhood to her he did say
Sung here by Fred Feild: