Why Didn't I Meet You Long Ago 1920

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 7 May 2012
2012

[James:] I'm awf'ly glad that we have met
Too long we went our diff'rent ways
Tho happy now yet I regret
Those lonely empty yesterdays
Life would have held deep joys galore,
If I had met you years before:

Why didn't I meet you long ago
we would have been good pals dear I know
Oh all the dull sad years I knew dear
Might have been full glad years with you
I would have adored you
Loved you so
I would have embraced you again and again
why didn't I meet you say now twenty years ago
For I was twenty years old then.

[Cicely:] Why didn't you meet me long ago
We would have been good pals that I know
You might have held me tight on your knee
I'd let you do it constantly
You would have adored me
loved me so.
You would have embraced me again and again
I would have let you kiss me twenty years ago.
For I was fourteen weeks old then.

[Cicily:] Advancing time brings pain and ache
I know the years change things a lot
They cool the heart and often make
folks look like they would rather not
But true romance just never ends
what's a grey hair or two twixt friends.

Why didn't I meet you long ago
we would have been good pals dear I know
Oh all the dull sad years I knew dear
Might have been full glad years with you
I would have adored you
Loved you so
I would have embraced you again and again
why didn't I meet you say now twenty years ago
For I was twenty years old then.

[Cicely:] Why didn't you meet me long ago
We would have been good pals that I know
You might have held me tight on your knee
I'd let you do it constantly
You would have adored me
loved me so.
You would have embraced me again and again
I would have let you kiss me twenty years ago.
For I was fourteen weeks old then.

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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Why Didn't I Meet You Long Ago 1920
from "Page Mr. Cupid"
© MCMXX by Jerome H.Remick & Co. New York & Detroit
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sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Monday 7 May 2012 at 17.16
in association with Veda Meyer-Castens
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