WHEN YOU WERE SWEET SIXTEEN | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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When first I saw the love-light in your eye And heard thy voice, like sweetest melody Speak words of love to my enraptured soul The world had naught but joy in store for me E'en though we're drifting down life's stream apart Your face I still can see in dream's domain I know that it would ease my breaking heart To hold you in my arms just once again Chorus: I love you as I never loved before Since first I met you on the village green Come to me, or my dream of love is o'er I love you as I loved you when you were sweet When you were sweet sixteen Last night I dreamt I held your hand in mine And once again you were my happy bride I kissed you as I did in Auld Lang Syne As to the church we wandered side by side The love I bear for you can never die Without you, I had rather not been born And, even though we never meet again I love you as the sunshine loves the morn Chorus: |
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Words and music by James Thornton - 1898 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Performed by Bonnie Thornton (1871-1920) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Performed by Hamilton Hill (aka Lizzie Cox) (1874-1910) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Performed by Julius P. Witmark (1870-1929) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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