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
1909
Lyrics
[VERSE 1]
Is the struggle and strife
We find in this life
Really worth while, after all?
I've been wishing today
I could just run away
Out where the west winds call.
[REFRAIN]
With some one like 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?
[REFRAIN]
Recommended Citation
Brennan, J. Keirn and Ball, Ernest R., "Let the Rest of the World Go By" (1909). Historic Sheet Music Collection. 1756.
https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/sheetmusic/1756
The views expressed in this paper are solely those of the author.
Comments
Ballad
Lyric by J. Keirn Brennan
Music by Ernest R. Ball
Illustration by P. Caminoni, Jr.
M. Witmark & Sons, New York
To Julie and Carrie
Copyright MCXIX by M. Witmark & Sons
International Copyright Secured
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