A popular song from 1914
Words and music by Richard Howard
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by Denese Coulbeck:
Lyrics
- I’ve wondered and wondered, if I’d see the day
When the girl of my dreams would come true
I’ve wondered and wondered, and wondered away
As I dreamed of her all the night thro’
I promised I’d love her, tho’ only in dreams
In the days that have vanished and passed
Tho’ I’ve sometimes been blue I have always been true
Now I’m glad for I’ve met her at last
Refrain
Face to face with the girl of my dreams last night
There I stood in reality
And Oh! what a girl, she’s more beautiful still
Than I ever dreamed she would be
Happiness, that is real, I have found at last
The whole world is mine, so it seems
Since I stood there last night
In that wonderful light
Face to face with the girl of my dreams
- For ever and ever, and ever, and aye
I shall worship, and love and adore
And then on eternity’s very last day
I shall want her a year or two more
I’ll take her and lock her down deep in my heart
Then I’ll go throw the key in the sea
And nobody shall know, where it lies there below
But the sea and my sweetheart and me