Historic Sheet Music Collection
Document Type
Score
Links to Recordings at the Internet Archive
https://archive.org/details/78_let-the-rest-of-the-world-go-by_bob-hannon-harry-sosnik-ernest-r.-ball-j.-keirn-bre_gbia0012019b
https://archive.org/details/78_let-the-rest-of-the-world-go-by_brad-reynolds-irving-miller-brennan-ball_gbia0004742a
https://archive.org/details/78_let-the-rest-of-the-world-go-by_campbell-and-burr-ball_gbia0016763a
https://archive.org/details/78_let-the-rest-of-the-world-go-by_dick-haymes_gbia0029431a
https://archive.org/details/78_let-the-rest-of-the-world-go-by_dick-haymes-ernest-r-ball-j-keirn-brennan-victor_gbia0017003b
https://archive.org/details/78_let-the-rest-of-the-world-go-by_elizabeth-spencer-charles-hart-j.-keirn-brennan-ern_gbia0013410a
https://archive.org/details/78_let-the-rest-of-the-world-go-by_elizabeth-spencer-charles-hart-j.-keirn-brennan-ern_gbia0013425a
https://archive.org/details/78_let-the-rest-of-the-world-go-by_frank-ferera-anthony-franchini-ball-dubin-gaskill-m_gbia0014637b
https://archive.org/details/78_let-the-rest-of-the-world-go-by_frank-york-and-his-orchestra-yole-obryn-brennan-ba_gbia0004898a
https://archive.org/details/78_let-the-rest-of-the-world-go-by_marcel-laurence-ernest-r.-ball-j.-keirn-brennan_gbia0006607a
https://archive.org/details/78_let-the-rest-of-the-world-go-by_maurice-dambois-ball_gbia0033306b
https://archive.org/details/78_let-the-rest-of-the-world-go-by_niblick-trio_gbia0002552a
https://archive.org/details/78_let-the-rest-of-the-world-go-by_pladas-serenaders_gbia0003975aPublication Date
1919
Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Is the struggle and strife we find in this life
Really worth the while, after all?
I’ve been wishing today I could just run away,
Out where the west winds call.
[Refrain]
With someone life you, a pal good and true,
I’d like to leave it all behind, and go and find
Some place that’s known to God alone,
Just a spot to call our own.
We’ll find perfect peace,
Where joys never cease,
Out there beneath a kindly sky,
We’ll build a sweet little nest somewhere in the west, And let the rest of the world go by.
[Verse 2]
Is the future to hold
Just struggles for gold
While the real world waits outside,
Away out on the breast
Of the wonderful West,
Across the great Divide?
[Chorus]
Recommended Citation
Brennan, J. Keirn and Ball, Ernest R., "Let the Rest of the World Go By" (1919). Historic Sheet Music Collection. 1418.
https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/sheetmusic/1418
The views expressed in this paper are solely those of the author.
Comments
MacIntosh Collection
Artist: P. Caminoni Jr.
New York: M. Whitmark & Sons, (1919)
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