Historic Sheet Music Collection
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Score
Links to Recordings at the Internet Archive
https://archive.org/details/78_smiles_campbell-and-burr-roberts_gbia0036970b
https://archive.org/details/78_smiles_claude-thornhill-and-his-orchestra-a-pair-of-pairs-callahan-roberts_gbia0019541b
https://archive.org/details/78_smiles_crazy-otto-lee-s-roberts-j-will-callahan_gbia0025012b
https://archive.org/details/78_smiles_dave-edwards-and-his-alabama-boys-lee-s.-roberts-j.-will-callahan_gbia0009992a
https://archive.org/details/78_smiles_earl-fullers-rector-novelty-orchestra-roberts_gbia0005833a
https://archive.org/details/78_smiles_earl-fullers-rector-novelty-orchestra-roberts_gbia0010134a
https://archive.org/details/78_smiles_lambert-murphy-j-will-callahan-lee-s-roberts_gbia0019340a
https://archive.org/details/78_smiles_lambert-murphy-j-will-callahan-lee-s-roberts_gbia0033323a
https://archive.org/details/78_smiles_lambert-murphy-j-will-callahan-lee-s-roberts_gbia0034664a
https://archive.org/details/78_smiles_pinky-tomlin-harry-sosnik-lee-s-roberts-j-will-callahan-claude-kennedy-man_gbia0034239a
https://archive.org/details/78_smiles_pinky-tomlin-lee-s-roberts-j-will-callahan-claude-kennedy-manny-klein-andy_gbia0037398a
Publication Date
1918
Lyrics
VERSE 1
Dearie, now I know
Just what makes me love you so,
Just what holds me and enfolds me
In its golden glow;
Dearie, now I see
‘Tis each smile so bright and free,
For life’s sadness turns to gladness
When you smile on me.
REFRAIN
There are smiles that make us happy,
There are smiles that make us blue,
There are smiles that steal away the teardrops.
As the sun beams steal away the dew,
There are smiles that have a tender meaning
That the eyes of love alone may see,
And the smiles that fill my life with sunshine
Are the smiles that you give to me
There are me.
VERSE 2
Dearie, when you smile
Ev’ry thing in life’s worth while,
Love grows fonder as we wander
Down each magic mile;
Cheery melodies
Seen to float up on the breeze,
Doves are cooing while they’re wooing
In the leafy trees.
REFRAIN
Recommended Citation
Roberts, Lee S. and Callahan, J. Will, "Smiles" (1918). Historic Sheet Music Collection. 1684.
https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/sheetmusic/1684
The views expressed in this paper are solely those of the author.
Comments
Words by J. Will Callahan. Music by Lee S. Roberts
Jerome H. Remick & Co. Detroit New York
Copyright 1917 by Lee S. Roberts, Fine Arts Bldg, Chicago, Ill. Transferred 1918 to Jerome H. Remick & Co., Detroit & New York
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