A waltz ballad from 1923
Words and music by Charles E. Roat
The sheet music:
Lyrics
- As I turn back the years
With my eyes full of tears
There’s a face I can fairly see
Just a pal good and true
How we loved no one knew
Dear old pal
Please come back to me
Chorus:
Dear old pal how I miss you
I’m lonely tonight
Dear old pal, just to kiss you
Would make things seem right
For the sweetest of memories come back to me
I am longing to hold you again tenderly
Every star in the night brings your message of love
And its far shining light tells me you’re up above
I hear you calling to me now it seems
Oh how I miss you
Pal of my dreams
- How my heart seems to yearn
And my thoughts ever turn
To those days of the long ago
All the world I would give
If once more I could live
O’er the years
That you loved me so