Take Back Your Gold 1897

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 30 April 2011
2011

I saw a youth and maiden
on a lonely city street,
and thought them lovers
at their meeting place;
Until, as I drew near,
I heard the girl's sad voice
entreat the one who heeded not
her tearstained face.
"I only ask you, Jack
to do your duty, that is all.
You know you promised
that we should be wed.
And when he said:
"You shall not want
whatever may befall,"
She spurned the gold
he offered her and said:

Take back your gold
for gold can never buy me
Take back your bribe
and promise you'll be true;
Give me the love
the love that you'd deny me,
make me your wife
that's all I ask of you!

He drew her close unto him
and to soothe her then he tried,
But she in pride and sorrow turned away,
And as he sought to comfort her
she wept and softly sighed,
"You'll rue your cruel actions,
Jack, some day.!
"Now little one, don't cry," he said,
"for though tonight we part,
and though another soon
will be my bride,
This gold will help you to forget,"
but with a breaking heart,
she scorned his gift
and bitterly replied:

Take back your gold
for gold can never buy me
Take back your bribe
and promise you'll be true;
Give me the love
the love that you'd deny me,
make me your wife
that's all I ask of you!

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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Take Back Your Gold 1897
Music by Monroe Rosenfeld
Lyrics by Louis W.Pritzkow
© 1897 by Jos.W.Stern & Co.
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sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Saturday 30 April 2011 at 12.45
in association with Veda Meyer-Castens
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