Those Since-I-Met-You Days 1919 'Angel Face'

James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 15 Jan 2004

[Betty:] I chance to be the youngest
of my big family
and it is not the source of joy
some say it is.
If you have been the "baby,"
you'll sympathise with me
and I need not explain,
you know the way it is.
Big sisters all have suitors
to pilot them about
and life for them
is one long merry whirl;
but "little sister" hasn't
because she isn't 'out'
so I'm poor little nobody's girl.

But the time is coming very soon,
very soon, and until it comes
I'll bear it;
when I'll find somebody
who has planned a honeymoon
and wants another somebody to share it.
Then the time I lost when I was young,
so very young,
I'll make up for in so many ways,
that I'll very soon forget
those days before we met
and think only of
those sinceImetyou days.

But the time is coming very soon,
very soon, and until it comes
I'll bear it;
when I'll find somebody
who has planned a honeymoon
and wants another somebody to share it.
Then the time I lost when I was young,
so very young,
I'll make up for in so many ways,
that I'll very soon forget
those days before we met
and think only of
those sinceImetyou days.

[Arthur:] I'm glad I've met the youngest
of your big family
and since I have
I mean to make the most of it.
In going to your rescue,
as very soon you'll see
you've no chance to escape,
no not a ghost of it.
I'll take you where it's gayest
and we will make things hum
till Vera, Paula, Lillian and Pearl,
will envy "little sister"
since sister has become
my own dear little somebody's girl.

For the time is coming very soon,
very soon, when you'll get a ring
and wear it;
for you've found somebody
who has planned a honeymoon
and wants another somebody to share it.
And the time you lost
when you were young, so very young
we'll make up for in so many ways,
that you'll very soon forget
those days before we met
and think only of
those sinceImetyou days.

For the time is coming very soon,
very soon, when you'll get a ring
and wear it;
for you've found somebody
who has planned a honeymoon
and wants another somebody to share it.
And the time you lost
when you were young, so very young
we'll make up for in so many ways,
that you'll very soon forget
those days before we met
and think only of
those sinceImetyou days.

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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Those Since-I-Met-You Days 1919
Lyric by Robert B. Smith
Music by Victor Herbert
copyright MCMXIX by T.B.Harms & Francis, Day & Howard
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sequence and karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Thursday 15 January 2004 at 20.50
in association with Doug Grierson
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George W. Lederer's production of the Unique Musical Play
"Angel Face"
Music by Victor Herbert
Book by Harry B. Smith. Lyrics by Robert Smith
Harry B. Smith Robert Smith Publication:
New York: T.B. Harms, 1919.
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