A fox-trot song from 1928
Words by Irving Caesar
Music by Cliff Friend
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- One little word and we parted in tears
I might have stayed broken-hearted for years
I tried to forget but somehow I knew
The old was the true love, no other would do
Chorus
Love was just a memory
Until I brought her back to me
My old girl’s my new girl now
I looked in each smiling face
But no one else could take her place
My old girl’s my new girl now
I put her picture back in that frame
She took my picture and did the same
How I’ve paid for my mistake
But that’s the last mistake I’ll make
My old girl’s my new girl now
- Learn to forget and you learn to forgive
Learn to forgive and you learn how to live
A lesson I’ve learned, my joy has returned
And you’ll never know how for days my heart yearned
Sung here by Laurence Rubenstein: