From the 1962 musical “Mr. President”
Words and music by Irving Berlin
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
Let’s go back to the waltz
Take me back to the waltz
Let’s journey back to the past
Back when the world wasn’t turning so fast
When the tempo was slow
In the long, long ago
How I yearn, how I long to return
To the golden days of the waltz
Sung here by Laurence Rubenstein.
Guitar by Steve Rubenstein: