The Old Refrain chords by Jeanette MacDonald
Verse 1
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I often
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think of home dear O 'Leary
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When I am all alone and far away,
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I sing an old refrain d 'Iuliae,
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or it recalls to me a bygone day.
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It takes me back again
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to Meadow's Fair
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Where sun light's golden rays
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beam everywhere
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Adim
My childhood joys again
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come back to me
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My mother's face in fancy too, I see
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It was my mother taught me how to sing,
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and to that memory my heart will cling.
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I'm never sad and lone while on my way.
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As long as I can sing till
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the end.
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O 'er years have passed and gone,
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Dioulié,
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And though my heart is young,
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my head is grey,
Yet still the echoes ring, Dioulié,
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And dear old memories forever stay.
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My heart can bring me visions full of light,
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And sweetest dreams
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throughout the darkest night.
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Of all that life can give,
that song is best.
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I'll take it with me when I go to rest.
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And when at last my journey
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here is o 'er,
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To err on, more joyfully than ere before,
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For up to heaven I will take my lay.
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And I, will sing to you.
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The Old Refrain
Jeanette MacDonald
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