Song Information

Song Title

Good Bye Sweetheart Goodbye

Song Lyrics

The bright stars fade, the morn is breaking
The dewdrops pearl each bud and leaf,
And I from thee my leave a taking,
With bliss too brief, with bliss, with bliss too brief.
How sinks my heart with fond alarms,
The tear is hiding in mine eye,
For time doth tear me from thine arms,

Goodbye, sweetheart, goodbye,
Goodbye, sweetheart, goodbye,
For time doth tear me from thine arms,
Goodbye, sweetheart, goodbye

The sun is up, the lark is soaring,
Loud swells the song of chanticleer,
The lev’ret bounds o’er earth’s soft flow’ring
Yet I am here, yet I, yet I am here.
For since night’s gems from heav’n do fade,
And morn to floral lips doth hie,
I could not leave thee though I said

Goodbye, sweetheart, goodbye,
Goodbye, sweetheart, goodbye,
I could not leave thee though I said
Goodbye, sweetheart, goodbye

Song First Line

The bright stars fade, the morn is breaking

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Link to Song

www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ3l0Eoi5LA

Comments

Words: Jane Williams (1806 to 1885)

Music: J. L. Hatton (1809 – 1886)

 

Link version by John McCormack circa 1920