Beside an Open Fireplace

A popular song from 1929
Words and music by Paul Denniker and Will Osborne


The sheet music:


Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:


Lyrics

  1. Nature is sleeping out in the gloom
    Shadows are creeping inside my room
    Logs all aglow in the fireplace there
    Lonely, I’m dreaming in my old arm chair

Chorus
Beside an open fireplace
I sit and dream of you
In every flame I see the face
That time and space will not erase
And when the cooling embers die
Just as your love died, too
There’s nothing in my fireplace
But broken dreams of you

  1. Darkness is falling, stars light the sky
    Night birds are calling, night breezes sigh
    Here all alone I am sad and blue
    You would return, dear, if you only knew