161. Bye and Bye You Will Forget Me

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Bye and Bye You Will Forget Me

Another lyric of love's foreboding. It has not been found in
other collections, though the substance of it appears in many other
songs on the same general topic.

'Bye and Bye You Will Forget Me.' Reported by W. Amos Abrams
of Boone, Watauga county, but he does not say from whom he had it.

1 Bye and bye you will forget me,
When your face is far from me
And the day when first I met you
Only lives in memory.

Chorus:

Sweet the hour when first I met you,
Sad the hour my lips shall say
'Bye and bye you will forget me,
Bye and bye when far away.'

2 For 'mid other scenes and pleasures
Nearer joys my heart would sway ;
And the love, like childish measures.
Will be tossed and thrown away.

3 Bye and bye you will forget me,
When our dream of life is o'er
And the voice that used to pet me
By my side is heard no more.

 

OLDER BALLADS — MOSTLY BRITISH 425

Lonely then I'll sit and ponder,
And my quivering lips shall say :
'Bye and bye you will forget nie.
Bye and bye when far away.'

When this you see think of me,
Though on this earth I may not be ;
But if the grave should be my bed
Oh, think of me when I am dead.