If Only You Were Mine 1900 'The Singing Girl'

James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 11 Jul 2004

Whatever fate
that after years may bring to me
of grief or care,
my life were joy alone
if only I could have your voice
to sing to me,
if only I could call
your heart my own.
Could I but know
that you would be beside me, dear;
if sunshine gladden
or if shadows fall, Oh!
Then whatever fortune might betide me,
My life would happy be, for love,
for love is all.
If only you were mine, dear,
then all the world were fair;
When my eyes look in thine, dear,
my world, my life are there.
Life's morn is glad and bright, dear,
it's morn of fair sunshine,
and starlit were the night, dear,
If only you were mine.

I would not ask another
joy to fall on me;
I would not pray
for other boon than this
thy true and tender love
were all in all to me.
The heaven of my soul is in the kiss,
the forest voices keep
their sweetest songs for thee.
For thee the wild rose
blossoms in the glen.
Come back to me, my darling,
for I love thee;
come back to me
and we shall never part again.
If only you were mine, dear,
then all the world were fair;
When my eyes look in thine, dear,
my world, my life are there.
Life's morn is glad and bright, dear,
it's morn of fair sunshine,
and starlit were the night, dear,
If only you were mine.

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
If Only You Were Mine 1900
Lyrics by Harry B. Smith
Music by Victor Herbert
© MCM by M. Witmark & Sons.
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sequence and karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Sunday 11 July 2004 at 20.53
in association with Doug Grierson
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From "The Singing Girl" -  A Comic Opera in 3 Acts
As Produced by the Alice Nielsen Opera Co. at The Casino, New York.
Sung by Miss Lucille Saunders
Music by Victor Herbert. Book by Stanislaus Stange.
Lyrics by Harry B. Smith.
Stanislaus Stange Harry B. Smith Publication: New York
M. Witmark & Sons, 1899.
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