When Day Is Done

Based on the European success “Madonna”, 1926
Words by B. G. De Sylva
Music by Dr. Robert Katscher

The sheet music:

When Day Is Done – Sheet MusicDownload

Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:

When_Day_Is_Done – MIDIDownload

Lyrics

  1. Since you’ve gone away
    One thing is clear to me
    You were dearer than dear to me
    From the moment you came
    Evenings by your side
    I learned to love the night
    But the loveliness of the night
    Is no longer the same

Refrain
When day is done and shadows fall
I dream of you.
When day is done I think of all
The joys we knew
That yearning returning,
To hold you in my arms
Won’t go, love, I know, love
Without you night has lost its charms
When day is done and grass is wet
With twilight’s dew,
My lonely heart is sinkin’ with the sun
Although I miss your tender kiss
The whole day through,
I miss you most of all
When day is done

  1. Vesper bells are ringing
    Somewhere far away
    There’s a silvery star away
    At the edge of the sky
    Work is done
    And life is like a song to me
    For some treasures belong to me
    That no money can buy

Sung here by Laurence Rubenstein: