A popular song from 1921.
Words and music by Howard Johnson, Milton Ager, and Ira Schuster.
Sheet music provided by Laurence Rubenstein:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- Once you were anchored way down in my heart
Anchored I thought to stay
But that affection we knew at the start
Seems to have flown away
Gone is the sunlight that shone from above
Gone is our harbor of love
Chorus
We’re drifting apart, drifting apart
Just like two ships lost at sea
Further away, day after day
What will the end of it be
Your ways have told, love’s growing cold
Absence is breaking my heart
You may forget, still I love you yet
Though we are drifting apart
- Out on life’s sea, once we both peacefully
Sailed free from all alarms
You used to say that your port in a storm
Was in my loving arms
But just one word like a storm, so it seems
Wrecked all our hopes and our dreams
Sung here by Fred Feild: