Historic Sheet Music Collection

Document Type

Score

Publication Date

1923

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Lyrics by Frank Farrell
Music by Billy Muldoon

Published by the Arcadia Pub. Co.
Providence, R.I.

Copyright, 1923, by Frank P. Farrell

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Lyrics

1. The things that are really precious in life
Can't be reckoned by the cost,
Nor are they what we always have had,
But rather what we've had and lost,
When I had you, my own, I loved you divine,
Only to lose when I though you were mine.

CHORUS
If I only knew you were sorry
How happy I would be.
I said you'd regret when we parted,
Now I hope it's a reality.
I loved you 'tis true, more than you ever knew
Yet you played with my heart like a toy;
If I only knew you were sorry,
All my sadness would be joy.

2. What life gives to you she soon takes away,
Makes you happy for a day,
And then you're thrown into darkness again
To dream of the days that have been,
And for me it is sweet to dream what I've had;
Even the memories will make me glad.

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