Historic Sheet Music Collection
Title
Document Type
Score
Links to Recordings at the Internet Archive
https://archive.org/details/78_drifting_bill-carlisle-and-his-kentucky-home-boys-bill-carlisle_gbia0013275b
https://archive.org/details/78_drifting_peerless-quartet-polla_gbia0004881a
Publication Date
1920
Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Where are we drifting, you and I?
Drifting today ‘neath a sunny sky?
When life is young, and love is new,
And nothing else matters to me but you.
[Refrain]
Drifting, drifting, down life’s stream,
Red lips smile while bright eyes beam.
I don’t care where I drift to,
If I’m only drifting with you.
Drifting, drifting, down life’s stream
Red lips smile while bright eyes beam.
I don’t care where I drift to,
If I’m only drifting with you.
[Verse 2]
Dear, do not care ‘tho shadows fall;
Love is our pilot, and love is all:
Still in the dark my voice you’ll hear
And then dearly whisp’ring I love you dear.
[Refrain]
Recommended Citation
Lamb, Arthur J. and Polla, William, "Drifting" (1920). Historic Sheet Music Collection. 296.
https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/sheetmusic/296
The views expressed in this paper are solely those of the author.
Comments
Drifting
Words by Arthur J. Lamb
Music by William Polla
Connecticut (Hartford): Published by C. C. Church and Company (1920)
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