… is all that I can say; a 1916 ballad.
Words by J. Keirn Brennan
Music by Ernest R. Ball
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics:
1. It’s hard to part when heart to heart
We’ve lived and loved and dreamed
It came to naught, although I thought
That you were all you seemed
Though I forgive, I can’t forget
I’ll live within the past
That we have met I don’t regret
I’ll love you till the last
Chorus
Good-bye, good luck, God Bless you
Is all that I can say
But when you leave, my heart will grieve
Forever and a day
Though other arms caress you
I cannot bid you stay
Good-bye, good luck, God bless you
Is all that I can say
2. Though all that’s bright and good and right
Today goes out with you
I’ll always pray there’ll come a day
When hope will live anew
When love and trust from out the dust
Of shattered dreams may rise
That love now blind, may later find
A greater Paradise
Sung here by Fred Feild: