A 1916 popular song.
Words by J. Keirn Brennan.
Music by Ernest R. Ball.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- It seems so long ago
Although ’twas only yesterday
When just a word in anger heard
Our lives should part for aye
With faith so strong we thought no wrong
Could tear our heart-strings then
What would I give could I but live
The days that might have been
Chorus
Turn back the universe and give me yesterday
Unclasp the hands of time that hold life’s golden ray
Take back that bitter hour when our love passed away
Turn the back the universe, and give me yesterday
- My soul I’d give to live
The happy days beyond recall
When you were near and to you dear
I gave my love, my all
A perfect past to good to last
Is all I dream of now
I hope and wait and trust to fate
To bring you back somehow
Sung here by Vancha March: