From the Berlin Operetta “A Modern Eve”, 1911.
Words by Will M. Hough.
Music by Jean Gilbert.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- Beware the spell of the springtime
Though it seems sweet as, life to you-oo
For all the dreams that you’re dreaming
May lose their charm when they come true-oo
It’s always best to remember
Through all your rapture so divine
That once you are wed
From then you are dead is a long long time
Unless you’re wary in the spring
This farewell song you will sing
Chorus
Good-bye, ev’rybody! Good-bye, ev’rything
Farewell golden summer
Farewell lovely spring
Breaks my heart to think that I’m going
Good-bye! Good-bye!
Here’s a kiss to make you remember the days gone by
Good-bye dear old fellows, farewell ladies gay
Good-bye, ev’rybody, I got married today
- The girls you loved in the summer
Loved in the winter, loved in spring time
Must all be gone and forgotten
Ever and ever when it’s Ring-time
Can you forget all the others?
Give up a hundred loves for one?
Oh who can be sure
One love will endure, while the world goes on
It’s wiser far to hesitate than find you’re sorry too late