#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
• Early Arrangements
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• Incipit: 3453212161616513532345321216165135231
• Condensed Incipit: 3453212161616513532345321216165135231
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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.
  
  chorus:
  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.
  
  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.
  
  
  • George W. Johnson (1811-1862)