Song lyrics to Love’s Old Sweet Song, Music by J.L. Molloy, words by G. Clifton Bingham
Once in the dear dead days beyond recall,
When on the world the mists began to fall,
Out of the dreams that rose in happy throng
Low to our hearts Love sang an old sweet song;
And in the dusk where fell the firelight gleam,
Softly it wove itself into our dream.
Just a song a twilight, when the lights are low,
And the flick’ring shadows softly come and go,
Tho’ the heart be weary, sad the day and long,
Still to us at twilight comes Love’s old song,
comes Love’s old sweet song.
Even today we hear Love’s song of yore,
Deep in our hearts it dwells forevermore.
Footsteps may falter, weary grow the way,
Still we can hear it at the close of day.
So till the end, when life’s dim shadows fall,
Love will be found the sweetest song of all.
Just a song a twilight, when the lights are low,
And the flick’ring shadows softly come and go,
Tho’ the heart be weary, sad the day and long,
Still to us at twilight comes Love’s old song,
comes Love’s old sweet song.
Film appearances
- 1923 Love’s Old Sweet Song
- 1926 The Sea Beast
- 1931 Hell Divers
- 1934 Judge Priest
- 1935 The Arizonian
- 1936 Sabotage
- 1938 Storm Over Bengal
- 1939 Broadway Serenade
- 1940 Rebecca
- 1941 The Farmer’s Wife
- 1942 Unseen Enemy
- 1943 It Comes Up Love
- 1946 Demobbed
- 1947 Life with Father – played on piano and sung by William Powell
- 1950 Cheaper by the Dozen
- 1950 Father Is a Bachelor
- 1952 Wait till the Sun Shines, Nellie
- 1952 Belles on Their Toes
- 1965 The Intelligence Men
- 1975 The Wind and the Lion
- 1990 Awakenings
- 1992 Enchanted April