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Thread #25407   Message #298322
Posted By: Tiger
15-Sep-00 - 07:42 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Till We Meet Again: 'Smile the while...'
Subject: Lyr Add: TILL WE MEET AGAIN^^
Here are all the words. I sing it in a medley with Lili Marlene, representing the most popular songs from WWI and WWII.

TILL WE MEET AGAIN
as sung by Charles Hart & Louis James
Words by Raymond B. Egan, music by Richard Whiting, 1918

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,
And a fond lover* whispers good-bye.

Tho' good-bye 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.

[* The sheet music has "soldier boy" instead of "fond lover."]