VERSE

I've been a pris'ner, locked in a jail,
Love held the only key;
Love heard me crying, locked in a jail,
Came to the help of me.
Oh! what a wonderful feeling,
To be free, really free!

REFRAIN

So, over my shoulder goes one care,
Over my shoulder go two cares.
Why should I cry? It's blue above.
I'm free at last, and I'm in love.
Over my shoulder go three cares,
Over my shoulder go four cares.
Bye-bye to trouble, it's gone beyond recall;
Over my shoulder goes it all.

Yes, I have lov'd before; for many a maid
Hath many a sigh this anxious bosom torn;
And oft the Muse with moving song to aid
My hope adventurous have I call'd; my youth
Was fond and ardent, yet the flower of truth
Beneath the cold aspect as oft did fade:
For how could Love, though faithful, live forlorn?
Not fickle was my heart, yet ah, to mourn
Through many a year affection ill-repaid

  VERSE

You are leaving me,
And I will try
To face the world
Alone.
What will be will be,
But time cannot
Erase the love
We've known.
Let me but have a token
Through which your love is spoken,
You are leaving me,
But it will say
You're my own.

  REFRAIN

Oh, give me something to remember you by,
When you are far away from me,
Dear;
Some little something, meaning love cannot die,
No matter where you chance to be.
Though I'll pray for you,
Night and day for you,
It will see me through

REFRAIN

Dancing in the dark,
Till the tune ends
We're dancing in the dark,
And it soon ends.
We're waltzing in the wonder
Of why we're here.
Time hurries by, we're here
And gone,
Looking for the light
Of a new love
To brighten up the night.
I have you, love,
And we can face the music together,
Dancing in the dark.

INTERLUDE

What though love is old?
What though song is old?
Through them we can be young!
Hear this heart of mine

Loving you less than life, a little less
Than bitter-sweet upon a broken wall
Or brush-wood smoke in autumn, I confess
I cannot swear I love you not at all.
For there is that about you in this light —
A yellow darkness, sinister of rain —
Which sturdily recalls my stubborn sight
To dwell on you, and dwell on you again.
And I am made aware of many a week
I shall consume, remembering in what way
Your brown hair grows about your brow and cheek,
And what divine absurdities you say:
Till all the world, and I, and surely you,

L OVE'S on the highroad,
Love's in the byroad —
— Love's on the meadow, and Love's in the mart!
And down every byway
Where I've taken my way
— I've met Love a-smiling — for Love's in my heart!

Love's memories haunt my footsteps still
Like ceaseless flowings of the river
Its mystic depths say what can fill?
Sad disappointment waits for ever.

VERSE

You, sons of Adam,
You, daughters of Eve,
The time has come
To take your love-torn hearts
Off your sleeve.
Look, look about you,
What do you see?
Love-sick, love-lorn,
Love-wrecked, love-worn
Boo-hoo-manity.
There'll be no peace on earth
Until this curse
Is wiped off from this love-mad universe.
Are we mice or men?
Can't you see the light?
Come you fellow victims,
Let's unite.

REFRAIN

Down with love,
The flowers and rice and shoes.

As if the flow of the waters
From the triple streams of heavenly showers
So the sacred Ao of the eighth heavens
Whose flames have scorched the land.

Chorus:
Should our hearts' love be restored
And our rights be ours once more
Then will our sacred beloved shoals of Kane
Be the firm foundation of the land.

The heavens expand and bestow
Her beauteous crownlets free
Its life to her people for offerings given

A lover is a slender, glowing urn
On beauty's shrine, his heart is incense sweet,
Which with his eye-lit torch young love doth burn;
Then from its ardor cloudy ringlets fleet,
That we call sighs, and they with perfume turn
Upwards, his mistress' whisperings to meet.
The breezy whispers and the sighs embrace,
Like pink-winged clouds mixing above the hill,
And from their lovely toyings spring a race
Of tears, which saunter down in cheek-banked rill,
Silvering with sparkling coil the fair one's face;
Twin dewdrops which her startled senses spill