Love’s old sweet song (1996)    (video)

 

    C - G7 - C - G7 (2x)

 

      C                                  G                     G7

1. Once in the dear dead days beyond recall,

         G               G7           C

    when on the world the mists began to fall,

     C                F               G7                     C

    out of the dreams that rose in happy throng,

     C               Am                          D              G

    low to our hearts love sang an old sweet song.

     Dm                              Am                  

    And in the dusk where fell the firelight gleam,

      D         Em     Am   G   D7    G        - G7

    softly it wove itself into our dream.

 

  C                      G           G7                       C

Just a song at twilight, when the lights are low,

  E                         Am         D                       G     - G7

and the flick’ring shadows softly come and go.

     C                             G       G7                     E

Though the heart be weary, sad the day and long,

  C           C7  F         C        G       G7 C      

still to us at twilight comes love’s old song,

             F        C        G7   C                 

comes love’s own sweet song.                     + G7 - C - G7

 

      C                       G                          G7

2. Even today we hear love's song of yore,

       G                G7           C

    deep m our hearts it dwells for evermore,

      C                    F          G7                    C

    footsteps may falter, weary grow the way,

     C                Am                 D          G

    still we can hear it at the close of day.

   Dm                             Am                  

    So till the end, when life's dim shadows fall,

     D                Em             Am        G    D7 G    - G7

    love will be found the sweetest song of all.

 

+ CHORUS (2x)   + C - G7 - C - G7 (2x) .....

 

(orig. = capo 5th; video = capo 1st)    (Jim McCann)