Lyr Req: There's Silver In Your Hair

Subject: There's Silver In Your Hair Dear
From: GUEST,Cookie
Date: 15 Jul 01 - 09:20 AM

I'm trying to find info on an old song. Some of the lyrics are:

There's silver in your hair dear
The roses have faded away.
The snows of December have taken the place
of the beautiful flowers of May.
There's silver in your hair dear
and the flowers near depart
There's silver in your hair dear
But there's gold in your heart.

Can anyone help me,
Cookie

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: There's Silver In Your Hair Dear
From: Sorcha
Date: 15 Jul 01 - 11:11 AM

No lyrics, but info:

Title: There's silver in your hair (but there's gold within your heart).
First Line: Long years of joy we've spent together
Chorus: There's silver in your hair, dear, the roses have faded away
Music by: Wright, Lawrence.
Words by: David, Worton.
P/P/D: New York : Lawrence Wright Music Company, c1921.
Location: SPC, KIRK PS 1920-1922
From:http://cml.indstate.edu/rare/kirk/ps1920.html
(At the top of the page, it looks like they might send you a photo copy)

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: There's Silver In Your Hair Dear
From: Joe Offer
Date: 24 Jul 01 - 07:38 PM

Gee, you'd think we could find this one. It's not in Levy, and it's not at the Library of Congress.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: There's Silver In Your Hair Dear
From: IanC
Date: 27 Jul 01 - 06:06 AM

Sorcha's info is from the Kirk Collection (Univ Indiana) here. There doesn't seem to be anything else about it on the web.

Cheers!
Ian

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: There's Silver In Your Hair Dear
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 07 Mar 02 - 03:43 PM

The above link no longer works. The Kirk Collection can now be found here. But only the index is available online (just what Sorcha gave), not the actual sheet music.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: There's Silver In Your Hair Dear
From: GUEST,MCP
Date: 07 Mar 02 - 05:42 PM

There are also copies at U.Illinois Music Library Nos. 358, 1517.

For $21.95 + $5.00 carriage you can have it put on CD (with other song of your choice from an available list, I think) from original Edisons of the 20s at Babson Records

Lawrence Wright also wrote songs under the name Horatio Nicholls and was responsible for Among My Souvenirs. You'll find information about him at Lawrence Wright.

Both he and Warton David have references online, but despite checking a lot of lyric databases I can find no online version of the music/text.

Mick

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: There's Silver In Your Hair Dear
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 07 Mar 02 - 05:44 PM

Silver threads among the gold?

Not after tonight - going red (well, orangy) for spring!!

LTS

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: There's Silver In Your Hair Dear
From: Herga Kitty
Date: 07 Mar 02 - 05:54 PM

This reminds me of at least 2 Tom Lehrer antedotal songs.... ( "I know that I will hate you when you're old and grey", and "I'll hold your hand in mine"....

Kitty

Subject: Lyr Add: THERE'S SILVER IN YOUR HAIR (David/Wright
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 27 Jan 12 - 06:58 PM

From the sheet music at The Archive of Popular American Music at UCLA:


THERE'S SILVER IN YOUR HAIR (BUT THERE'S GOLD WITHIN YOUR HEART)
Words by Worton David; music by Lawrence Wright

1. Long years of joy we've spent together.
We've share. the rain and sunny weather;
But still to me your dear eyes shine,
As on the day God made you mine.

CHORUS: There's silver in your hair, dear; the roses have faded away.
The snows of December have taken the place of the beautiful flow'rs of May.
Your eyes have lost their brightness, but the love-light will ne'er depart.
There's silver in your snow-white hair, but there's gold within your heart.

2. We've heard the voice of springtime calling.
We've watched the leaves of autumn falling;
But though the years have come between,
The mem'ry lives of what has been. CHORUS