Historic Sheet Music Collection
Title
Document Type
Score
Links to Recordings at the Internet Archive
https://archive.org/details/78_drifting-apart_carlton-terrace-orchestra-fiorito-and-kahn_gbia0009535b
https://archive.org/details/78_drifting-apart-separacion_jean-goldkette-and-his-orchestra-gus-kahn-ted-fiorito-f_gbia0015456b
Publication Date
1915
Lyrics
[Verse 1]
When the shadows at twilight are falling,
And the dew softly falls on the rose;
Then days of our love I'm recalling,
As each thought into memory goes.
I could see, sweet-heart mine, as we parted,
That my dream of the future was o'er,
And our last kiss left me broken hearted,
For it meant that we part ever more,
[Chorus]
Drifting, drifting,
Sweetheart, we're slowly drifting,
My heart is breaking,
Thinking of you and you alone, my darling.
Drifting, drifting,
Just like the tide we're drifting,
Day after day, dear,
We're drifting apart.
[Verse 2]
Oh, how often in dreams you return, dear,
and the love in your eye brightly beams;
But it seems that I will always yearn, dear,
For you come to me only in dreams.
And my life seems so bare and forsaken
That I live, dear, in dreams of you;
But the joy in my heart would awaken,
Sweetheart, if they'd only come true.
[Chorus]
Recommended Citation
parquet, William and Keithley, E. Clinton, "Drifting Apart" (1915). Historic Sheet Music Collection. 305.
https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/sheetmusic/305
The views expressed in this paper are solely those of the author.
Comments
Drifting Apart
Words by William Parquet
Music by E. Clinton kaithley
Published by Frank K. Root & Co.
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