Let the Rest of the World Go By

Authors

J. Keirn Brennan
Ernest R. Ball

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

Publication Date

1909

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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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