a 1922 popular song
words and music by Jack Stern, Clarence J. Marks, Norah Lee Haymond
The sheet music:
Accompaniment:
Lyrics
- Love is a joy that is sacred
Life means naught without it’s bliss
Those who know it might
Should not hold it light
They should remember this
Altho’ you have found your love mate
Learn to hold him e’re he stray
Foolish thoughtless things
Only sorrow brings
And will drive your love away
Chorus
Foolish wives who forget to cherish
All their vows of faith so true
Foolish wives who will let love perish
Though they know not what they do
Thoughtless they and all unheeding
Of the sorrows that arise
When you laugh at Cupid’s pleading
Foolish wives then true love dies
- Love can be crushed in a moment
Like the petals of a rose
Just one reckless deed
Without thought or heed
Can cause a sea of woes
Therefore if this life has bless’d you
With joys of love and home
Do not let these fall
Just for pleasure’s call
Hopeless are the ones who roam
Sung here by Fred Feild: