====== #212 - When You and I Were Young ======
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  *Composer:
    *James Austin Butterfield (1837-1891), 1866
  *Also known as:
    *When You and I Were Young, Maggie
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  *++Lyrics:|\\
I wander'd today to the hill, Maggie,\\
To watch the scene below;\\
The creek and the old rusty mill, Maggie,\\
Where we sat in the long, long ago.\\
The green grove is gone from the hill, Maggie,\\
Where first the daisies sprung;\\
The creaking old mill is still, Maggie,\\
Since you and I were young.\\
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And now we are aged and gray, Maggie,\\
And the trials of life nearly done;\\
But to me you're as fair as you were, Maggie,\\
When you and I were young.\\
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A city so silent and lone, Maggie,\\
Where the young and the gay and the best,\\
In polished white mansions of stone, Maggie,\\
Have each found a place of rest,\\
Is built where the birds used to play, Maggie,\\
And join in the songs that were sung;\\
For we sang as gay as they, Maggie,\\
When you and I were young.\\
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    *George W. Johnson (1811-1862)