A fox-trot song from 1919
Words by J. Will Callahan
Music by Lee S. Roberts
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- This morning at dawning I had a dream,
The queerest dream, because it seemed
The wild ways of child days came to me then
And I was just a boy again.
Refrain
Wearing patches, a barefoot boy in patches
There is no other dream that matches,
And yet it can’t come true
I’d give up every other joy
To be once more that barefoot boy
A-wearing patches, patches
As I used to do
- I’d give all to live all those days once more
Those days of yore, that now are o’er
I yearn to return to those scenes again,
I’d gladly trade the now for then
Sung here by Laurence Rubenstein: