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When You And I Were Young, Maggie. Music by J.A. Butterfield Lyric by Geo. W. Johnson Published 1866

[Verse 1] I wan-der'd to-day to the hill, Mag-gie, To watch the scene be-low, The creek and the creak-ing old mill, Mag-gie, As we used to long a-go.

The green grove is gone from the hill, Mag-gie, Where first the dai-sies sprung; The creak-ing old mill is still, Mag-gie, Since you and I were young.

[Chorus] And now we are a-ged and gray, Mag-gie, And the tri-als of life near-ly done, Let us sing of the days that are gone, Mag-gie, When you and I were young.

[Verse 2] A cit-y so si-lent and lone, Mag-gie, Where the young and the gay and the best, In pol-ished white man-sions of stone, Mag-gie, Have each found a place of rest,

Is built where the birds used to play, Mag-gie, And join in the songs that were sung; For we sang as gay as they, Mag-gie, When you and I were young.

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[Verse 3] They say I am fee-ble with age, Mag-gie, My steps are less spright-ly than then, My face is a well writ-ten page, Mag-gie, But time a-lone was the pen,

They say we are a-ged and gray, Mag-gie, As spray by the white break-ers flung; But to me you're as fair as you were, Mag-gie, When you and I were young.

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