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Ralph Butts Other WWI Songs (39) Lyr Add: TILL WE MEET AGAIN (Egan/Whiting) 31 Jul 98


Wow - checked out that web site - great stuff!

My favorites - Peerless Quartette, Henry Burr, Charles Hart. They do my favorite, perhaps the most popular WWI song, "Till We Meet Again". I sing this together with "Lili Marlene" to cover both wars. Here's the old one....Tiger

TILL WE MEET AGAIN
Words by Raymond B. Egan, music by Richard A. Whiting, ©1918.

1. There's a song in the land of the lily
Each sweetheart has heard with a sigh.
Over high garden walls
This sweet echo falls
As a soldier boy* whispers goodbye:

CHORUS: Smile the while you kiss me sad adieu.
When the clouds roll by, I'll come to you.
Then the skies will seem more blue,
Down in Lovers Lane, my dearie.
Wedding bells will ring so merrily.
Ev'ry tear will be a memory,
So wait and pray each night for me,
Till we meet again.

2. Though goodbye means the birth of a teardrop,
Hello means the birth of a smile,
And the smile will erase
The tear-blighting trace,
When we meet in the after-a-while. CHORUS

[* "soldier boy"—as given in the sheet music; "fond lover" as sung by Charles Hart & Lewis James.]


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