Historic Sheet Music Collection
Document Type
Score
Publication 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 therebeneath 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. 832.
https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/sheetmusic/832
The views expressed in this paper are solely those of the author.
Comments
Let the rest of the world go by, ballad
lyrics by J. Keirn Brennan
music by Ernest R. Ball.
New York : M. Witmark & Sons
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