A popular song from 1902
Words by Arthur J. Lamb
Music by Harry Von Tilzer
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- The scene is a banquet where beauty and wealth
Have gathered in splendid array
But silent and sad is a fair woman there
Whose young heart is pining away
A card is brought for her, she reads there a name
Of one that she loved long ago
Then sadly she whispers, “Just say I’m not here
For my story he never must know”
Refrain
That night at the banquet in Misery Hall
She reigned like a queen on a throne
But often the tears filled her beautiful eyes
As she dreamed of the love she had known
Her thoughts flowed along thro’ the laughter and song
To the days she could never recall
And she longed to find rest on her dear mother’s breast
At the banquet in Misery Hall
- The time passes quickly and few in the throng
Have noticed the one vacant chair
‘Till out of the beautiful garden beyond
A pistol shot rings on the air
Now se in the moonlight, a handsome youth lays
Too quickly his life doth depart
While kneeling beside him the woman he’d loved
Finds her picture is close to his heart
Sung here by Vancha March: