When I Lost You

Album: Great American Composers (1912)
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  • The roses each one
    Met with the sun
    Sweetheart when I met you
    The sunshine had fled
    The roses were dead
    Sweetheart when I lost you

    I lost the sunshine and roses
    I lost the heavens of blue
    I lost the beautiful rainbow
    I lost the morning dew
    I lost the angel who gave me
    Summer, the whole winter through
    I lost the gladness that turned into sadness
    When I lost you

    The birds ceased their song
    Right turned to wrong
    Sweetheart when I lost you
    A day turned to years
    The world seemed in tears
    Sweetheart when I lost you Lyrics from a song in Public Domain

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  • Andy M. from Saco, MaineJust heard this song for the first time while watching an old L. Welk show today (11/19/22). I lost my wife of 50 years on 4/4/22 and I would have played this song at her funeral. It expresses how I feel now!!!
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