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
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.
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?
Recommended Citation
Ball, Ernest R. and Brennan, J. Keirn, "Let the Rest of the World Go By" (1919). Historic Sheet Music Collection. 831.
https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/sheetmusic/831
The views expressed in this paper are solely those of the author.
Comments
Let the rest of the world go by
music by Ernest R. Ball
words by J. Keirn Brennan.
New York : M. Witmark & Sons
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