Driftwood

A popular song from 1924.
Words by Gus Kahn.
Music by Lew Gold.


The sheet music:


Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:


Lyrics

  1. I wait alone by the side of the sea
    I used to roam here with you
    There was a dreamboat
    You sailed with me
    I know it’s gone dear
    But still at ev’ry dawn dear

Chorus
Driftwood from the ship of dreams
Still drifts back to me
All that’s left to me it seems
From the used to be
Little words of tenderness
I treasure in my lonely heart
For I have just been driftwood, too
Since we drifted apart
My old sweet heart

  1. Ship of my dreams
    That was lost in the years
    In vain I watch by the sea
    But when the golden morning appears
    The shadows lifting
    Sweet mem’ries come a-drifting

Sung here by Vancha March: