From the sheet music at The University of Tennessee:


WILL YOU MISS ME
Words by George Cooper; music by Charles E. Pratt. ©1872.
"Sung by Emerson's California Minstrels"

1. Will you miss me when I'm gone?
Tell me truly, darling, now.
When my heart is sad and lone,
Will your own in sorrow bow?
Joy sweetly beams from out those eyes.
Will they shed one tear for me,
When all alone 'neath distant skies
My shadowed path may be?

CHORUS: Will you miss me when I'm gone?
Whisper ere we bid adieu.
All my hopes are yours, my own.
Will you miss me? Tell me true. (Ah, tell me true!)

2. Will you miss me when the smiles
Of another softly beam?
When some fairer scene beguiles,
Will you of the absent dream?
Oh, fondly speak those eyes so bright,
Like twin violets bathed in dew.
They tell my heart in sweet delight
That you will still be true.