A popular song from 1923
Words and music by George W. Meyer
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- Through memorie’s haze I still can see
Sweet childhood days, how they beckon me
Those happy hours without a care
Among the flowers, how I long to be there
Chorus:
It’s simply grand, hand in hand
In the land of Sweet Sixteen
Look back and see, there was you
There was me, on the village green
We were happier then, little women and men
Don’t you wish you were back there once again?
We used to play, every day
Just as gay as Kings and Queens
How quick time flies, and we don’t realize
What childhood means
But when we’re old, oh what we’d give again
Just to love and live again
Back in the land of Sweet Sixteen
- This land of joy where hearts are strong
Each girl and boy sings a little love song
No time to grieve, no cause to yearn
But once we leave we can never return
Sung here by Laurence Rubenstein: