Powers branch photos, page 12
Elizabeth J. Powers, wife of Joseph Powers, wrote the lyrics to this and other popular songs in the early 1930s and published them herself from Troy, Montana. Her husband was a grandson of Patrick and Johannah through their daughter Johanna Powers. Two of the composers she collaborated with were L. G. Bivens and Jean Walz.

"On a day I'll ne'er forget          "Twas an old-fashioned game   "Then as I watched every play 
On the bowling green we met     But it was love just the same    Something within seemed to say
I was so lonesome and blue,       All the rules that I knew           No matter what be the score
I thought you might be, too,       I taught them to you,               I could teach you no more

"That is why I took part           "But I saw at a glance                 "You brough pain to my heart,
With no fear in my heart           My heart had no chance             Still I cherish the part,
In the game that was meant       For all the rules that I knew        In the game that was meant
For just two.                           Someone else had taught to you,                For just two."
                                              In that old-fashioned game they call love.
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