From the sheet music at the Library of Congress:


YOU'LL MISS ME WHEN I'M GONE
Words, Arthur W. French; music, H. P. Danks. ©1878.

1. In other days when pain and grief
Life's golden threads shall break,
And I but find the sweet relief
To never weep or wake;
Perhaps some tender thought of me
Within your heart will dawn,
While then and there, in memory,
You'll miss me when I'm gone.

CHORUS: You'll miss me when I'm gone,
You'll miss me when I'm gone,
In other days you'll speak my praise,
And miss me when I'm gone.

2. You still will keep the rosy hours
Enshrined with joy and hope,
Our pathway strewn with sweetest flow'rs
Along life's sunny slope;
The heart cannot forget the bliss
Of love's delightful dawn,
And looking back to dream of this,
You'll miss me when I'm gone.

3. Fond recollection still will dwell
Amid the scenes of yore,
And wear around your heart a spell
To last forevermore;
Then let me lie in peaceful sleep
To wait a fairer dawn,
And as my memory you keep,
You'll miss me when I'm gone.