If Winter Comes 1922

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 3 Jan 2010
2010

Love is a tale that is told,
Life is a book we may read;
Hearts, as they yearn,
are the pages we turn,
Where ever the story may lead.
Springtime may color the page,
Summers their loveliness lend,
And Autumns unfold
with their brown and their gold
but winter must come in the end.

If winter comes
and all your skies are grey;
Though gloomy shadows
fall across your way,
don't sit and dream
of the days gone by,
when life was young
and hope was high.
If winter comes
with bitter hail and snow,
And there is frost on the pane,
then just trudge along
with a smile and a song,
Summer will come again.

If winter comes
and all your skies are grey;
Though gloomy shadows
fall across your way,
don't sit and dream
of the days gone by,
when life was young
and hope was high.
If winter comes
with bitter hail and snow,
And there is frost on the pane,
then just trudge along
with a smile and a song,
Summer will come again.

Swallows may fly to the south,
Leaving their nest by the well;
Winds may grow chill
on the crest of the hill,
The last rose of summer may fall.
Friends who were dear may forget,
Leaving your heart with its pain,
but love that is true
will be waiting for you
when swallows fly northward again.

If winter comes
and all your skies are grey;
Though gloomy shadows
fall across your way,
don't sit and dream
of the days gone by,
when life was young
and hope was high.
If winter comes
with bitter hail and snow,
And there is frost on the pane,
then just trudge along
with a smile and a song,
Summer will come again.

If winter comes
and all your skies are grey;
Though gloomy shadows
fall across your way,
don't sit and dream
of the days gone by,
when life was young
and hope was high.
If winter comes
with bitter hail and snow,
And there is frost on the pane,
then just trudge along
with a smile and a song,
Summer will come again.

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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If Winter Comes 1922
Music by H.M.Tennent
Lyrics by Reginald Arkell (1882-1959)
© MCMXXII by Ascherberg, Hopwood & Crew Ltd.
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sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Sunday 3 January 2009 at 15.13
in association with Veda Meyer-Castens
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Henry Moncrieff Tennent (1879-1941), commonly known as
H.M. Tennent or Harry Tennent, was a British theatrical
producer, impresario and songwriter. From 1929 to 1933 he
mentored Binkie Beaumont (having previously worked with him in
Cardiff). When Tennent (already General Manager at the Theatre
Royal, Drury Lane, and Assistant Managing Director of Moss
Empires, a large variety theatre chain) in 1933 persuaded the
boards of Moss Empires and of Howard & Wyndham to
amalgamate in order the better to produce serious theatre, it was
Tennent and Beaumont who became the new company's two chief
executives. Their first production at the Queen's Theatre in 1936
was a failure, but later that year they formalised their partnership
as the production company 'HM Tennent Ltd', with offices on the
top floor of the Globe Theatre (now the Gielgud), and went on to
great success. On Tennent's death of a heart attack in 1941,
Beaumont found he was unmentioned in Tennent's will, but
nevertheless took over as managing director and the sole head of
the company.
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