American Old Time Song Lyrics: 49 I Will Come Back To You
Theater, Music-Hall, Nostalgic, Irish & Historic Old Songs, Volume 49
I WILL COME BACK TO YOU.
Copyright, 1896, by Widmer-Stigler Music Pub. Co.
Words and Music by "Roma."
We say good-bye, and yet with clapping hands
And breaking hearts, with sad and tear-stained face,
Holding each other as with iron bands,
Forged into one unending, strong embrace,
We stand together heart to heart, and know
This sorrow that has fallen 'cross our lives
Cannot destroy our love of years ago-
Cannot destroy our love of years ago.
Chorus.
I will come back to you, and I will love you so;
I will come back to you, and I will love you so;
I will come back to you, and I will love you so;
Love as I loved you, now, and in the long ago, the long ago.
Love, it may be that day when friends forsake,
Leave you alone your burdened cross to bear,
And when your life seems crushed beyond recall,
When faith has gone, and hope itself Is dumb,
That I shall come, love, as I used to come,
Just gently calling to your smothered cry,
And take your heart to rest on mine at last-
And take your heart to rest on mine at last.- Chorus.