Can I Forget? 1900 'Foxy Quiller'

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 18 May 2005

Can one long dead forget the rose,
the sweetness of the laughing Spring?
Not so, his heart impatient knows
that life and love are on the wing,
well knows that life and love are on the wing.
Ah, dream of youth in love's so drear December,
be death my portion,
still I must remember.
Can I forget, dear heart,
can I forget?
Can I forget?
Sweetheart forget!
Ah!

Can I forget the sunshine in the night of sorrow,
can I forget because you bid me dear,
Give up the past
because our life holds no tomorrow?
Heart of my heart,
heart of my heart,
heart of my heart!
Can I forget the love of yester year.

For your dear sake I lost the light,
my sun that shone within your eyes;
I left you, dear, then came the night:
for love is not a rose that dies,
for love, for love,
is not a rose that dies.
But tho' you chide,
one tie I will not sever,
I keep the past for ever and for ever.
Can I forget, dear love,
can I forget.
Can I forget?
Sweetheart forget!
Ah!

Can I forget the sunshine in the night of sorrow,
can I forget because you bid me dear,
Give up the past
because our life holds no tomorrow?
Heart of my heart,
heart of my heart,
heart of my heart!
Can I forget the love of yester year.

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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Can I Forget? 1900
Words by Helen Hay - Music by Reginald de Koven
Performer: As Sung in the Opera - "Foxy Quiller"
Dedicatee: To Miss Helen Bertram
© 1900 by Edward Schuberth & Co., N.Y.
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sequence and karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Wednesday 18 May 2005 at 10.45
in association with Doug Grierson
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