Vintage Audio: Till We Meet Again
Updated - Sunday, 10 November, 2002

Reproduced below are the lyrics to the popular 1918 song Till We Meet Again, penned by Raymond B. Egan (music by Richard Whiting).

The song became a sentimental favourite towards the close of the war and was sung by many performers, including Henry Burr and Albert Campbell.

Click here to listen to a version of the song performed by Vernon Dalhart and Gladys Price in 1918 (MP3 Format 733kb)

(Contributed with thanks by Allan Rosson)

Till We Meet Again

There's a song in the land of the lily,
Each sweetheart has heard with a sigh.
Over high garden walls this sweet echo falls
As a soldier boy whispers goodbye:

Smile the while you kiss me sad adieu
When the clouds roll by I'll come to you.
Then the skies will seem more blue,
Down in Lover's Lane, my dearie.

Wedding bells will ring so merrily
Ev'ry tear will be a memory.
So wait and pray each night for me
Till we meet again.

Tho' goodbye means the birth of a tear drop,
Hello means the birth of a smile.
And the smile will erase the tear blighting trace,
When we meet in the after awhile.

Smile the while you kiss me sad adieu
When the clouds roll by I'll come to you
Then the skies will seem more blue
Down in Lover's Lane, my dearie,

Wedding bells will ring so merrily
Ev'ry tear will be a memory
So wait and pray each night for me
Till we meet again.

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