a 1922 popular song
words by J. E. Nugent & Jack O’Connor
music by Felix Le Roy
The sheet music:
Accompaniment:
Lyrics
- An Idle dream, of other years
I said “Goodbye” left you in tears
A shadow falls, our love between
Mem’ry recalls, what might have been
Chorus
Could I only bring back yesterday and you
Your love so true, those days we knew
When the skies above sweet heart were always blue
And the world a garden fair to wander through
Could I only kiss away those tears that start
No more, sweet heart, we’d drift apart
Longing ever for you sadly, all the world I’d give it gladly
Could I only bring back yesterday and you
- Love’s old sweet song, I hear it yet
It fills my heart, with sad regret
Could we but live, the past again
We would not sigh, and cry in vain
Sung here by Fred Feild: