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YOU TELL ME YOUR DREAMS,
I'LL TELL YOU MINE
1898
Words by Seymour Rice and Albert H. Brown
Music by Charles N. Daniels (Info)


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8-Bar Intro

Verse 1

TWO LIT-TLE CHIL-DREN ONE MORN-ING,
AF-TER THEIR BREAK-FAST WAS O'ER,
WERE LAUGH-ING AND PLAY-ING TO-GETH-ER,
A-LONE ON THE DIN-ING ROOM FLOOR;
THE GIRL OF A DREAM HAD BEEN TALK-ING,
BUT RE-FUSED WITH A TOSS OF HER HEAD,
TO TELL IT ALL TO HER PLAY-MATE,
UN-TIL HE COAX-ING-LY SAID;

Verse 2

TOM SAID,"I DREAMED YOU HAD PROM-ISED,
THAT SOME DAY WE SHOULD BE WED"
"WHY THAT'S JUST EX-ACT-LY LIKE MY DREAM,"
MA-RY THEN BLUSH-ING-LY SAID;
TIME THEY SAY BRINGS MAN-Y CHANG-ES,
BUT THEIR LOVE NO CHANGE EV-ER KNEW,
SO THEY WERE HAP-PI-LY MAR-RIED,
THE DREAM OF THEIR CHILD-HOOD CAME TRUE.

Verse 3

SAD-NESS HAS EN-TERED THE HOUSE-HOLD,
(WHERE) HAP-PI-NESS ONCE REIGNED SU-PREME,
THE SUN-SHINE OF LIFE NOW HAS VAN-ISHED,
GRIEF HAS DIS-PELLED THEIR BRIGHT DREAM;
(FOR) MA-RY HIS KIND LOV-ING HELP-MATE,
HAD YES-TER-DAY PASSED A-WAY,
(AND IN) SOR-ROW TOM THINKS OF THE MORN-ING,
WHEN IN CHILD-HOOD TO HER HE DID SAY,

Chorus

YOU HAD A DREAM, WELL, I HAD ONE TOO,
I KNOW MINE'S BEST 'CAUSE IT WAS OF YOU.
COME SWEET-HEART TELL ME, NOW IS THE TIME,
YOU TELL ME YOUR DREAM, I'LL TELL YOU MINE.

Dedicated to Pat and Joe K.

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