Historic Sheet Music Collection
Title
Document Type
Score
Links to Recordings at the Internet Archive
https://archive.org/details/78_time-after-time_della-reese-sid-bass-cahn-styne_gbia0009847a
https://archive.org/details/78_time-after-time_ernest-tubb-jimmie-short-leon-short_gbia0005223a
https://archive.org/details/78_time-after-time_frank-sinatra-axel-stordahl-cahn-styne_gbia0019492a
https://archive.org/details/78_time-after-time_henry-burr-j-keirn-brennan-ernest-r-ball_gbia0015651b
https://archive.org/details/78_time-after-time_jimmy-dorsey-and-his-orchestra-bob-carroll-styne-cahn_gbia0012774b
https://archive.org/details/78_time-after-time_margaret-whiting-frank-devol-and-his-orchestra-jule-styne-sammy-cah_gbia0017169a
https://archive.org/details/78_time-after-time_teddy-wilson-quartet-sarah-vaughan-cahn-styne_gbia0026068a
https://archive.org/details/78_time-after-time_tommy-dorsey-and-his-orchestra-sammy-cahn-jule-styne-stuart-foster_gbia0003931a
Publication Date
1921
Lyrics
VERSE 1
What can I do to wake you
Up to the things you miss?
What can I do to make you
Thrill to an honest kiss?
What can I do that I haven’t done
To make you believe
I love only one!
CHORUS
Time after time I’ve told you
How much I miss your smile;
Hoping you’d let me hold you
Just for a little while.
Time after time you refuse me,
Refuse me your lips sublime,
You don’t seem to know that I love you so,
Tho’ I’ve told you time after time.
VERSE 2
Is there no love comes stealing
Into your sleeping heart?
Is there no lonesome feeling
Fills you when we’re apart?
Is there no way to win your dear hand?
What more can I say,
So you’ll understand?
CHORUS
Recommended Citation
Ball, Edward R. and Brennan, J. Keirn, "Time After Time" (1921). Historic Sheet Music Collection. 1691.
https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/sheetmusic/1691
The views expressed in this paper are solely those of the author.
Comments
Waltz Ballad
Lyric by J. Keirn Brennan. Music by Ernest R. Ball. Writers of "Let the Rest of the World Go By" "Good Bye, Good Luck, God Bless You" "Turn Back the Universe" "Little Crumbs of Happiness," etc.
Whitmark & Sons New York
Cover illustration signed AB Copeland
Copyright MCMXXI by M. Witmark & Sons, New York
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