a 1922 popular song
words by Flora Wulschner
music by Eugene Cowles
The sheet music:
Accompaniment:
Lyrics
- Forgotten you? well, if forgetting
Be thinking all the day
How the long hours drag since you left me
Days seem years with you away
Or hearing through all the strange babble
Of voices, now grave, now gay
Only your voice: can this be forgetting?
Yet I have forgotten, you say
Or counting each moment with longing
Till the one when I’ll see you again
If this be forgetting, you’re right, dear
And I have forgotten you then - Forgotten you? Well if forgetting
Be reading each face that I see
With eyes that mark never a feature
Save your as you last looked at me
Forgotten you? well, if forgetting
Be yearning with all my heart
With a longing, half pain and half rapture
For the time when we never shall part
If the wild wish to see you and hear you
To be held in your arms again
If this be forgetting, you’re right, dear
And I have forgotten you then
Forgotten, you say!
Sung here by Fred Feild: