Historic Sheet Music Collection
Title
Document Type
Score
Publication Date
1924
Lyrics
[Verse 1]
The day is ending, you’re smiling thru
Tomorrow’s sending a struggle new;
The burden’s heavy, but if you bear,
We’ll find a haven, our love to share.
[Verse 2]
The years we’ve waited, we’ll soon forget,
Our hearts were mated since first we met;
The trail to Loveland, soon dear, we’ll find,
All care and sorrow we’ll leave behind.
[Refrain]
Out where the sun bids the day a fond good-bye,
Our where the fields meet the crimson of the sky,
Out where all sorrow surrenders,
Out where the blue begins,
Dreams we once knew will return, and come true
Love that is strong must abide.
Blest in a nest in the West well find rest.
West of the Great Divide-vide.
Recommended Citation
Whiting, George and Hall, Ernest R., "West of the Great Divide" (1924). Historic Sheet Music Collection. 1787.
https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/sheetmusic/1787
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Comments
Lyrics by GEORGE WHITING, Music by ERNEST R. BALL
Composer of "Let the Rest of the World go by"
"Till the Sand of the Desert Grow Cold"
""Mother Mochree" etc.
Title page: Theme songs and Melody for Metro Goldwyn’s motion picture version of the stage play, Featuring Alice Terry and Conway Tearle
Copyright MCMXXIV by M.Witmark & Sons.
International Copyright Secured. All rights reserved, Including public performance for profit
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