A popular song from 1906.
Words and music by Chas. K. Harris.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- The old folks sit and dream at night
Of their one little girl
Who went away one summer’s day
To join the city’s whirl
She wrote them she was happy there
With one she loved so dear
And those simple souls in patience wait
For her their hearts to cheer
Chorus
She came without a wedding ring
Without that band of gold
Back to the place she loved so well
Back where the sweet bells tolled
No loving kisses welcome her
No birds for her now sing
For she came back home
And broke their hearts
Without a wedding ring
- Forgive me father, mother too
I know I’ve wronged you so
Your little girl has come to you
But not the same I know
“Go back, my child” the old man cried
“Go back from whence you came
For our little girl is dead to us
She ne’er can be the same”
Sung here by Vancha March: