CHERRY TREE, THE
(Neil H. Johnson)


Paul Tutmarc & The Wranglers (vocal: Bonnie Tutmarc) - 1953



Many long years I have wandered
Far from my childhood home
Many new things I have pondered
Now I'm getting too weary to roam

I'll go back and sit beneath the cherry tree
Watch the petals falling down like snow
And a pair of swallows in the blue will sing
While a warm and gentle wind will blow

So, goodbye to all the lonely byways
There's no more that I would care to see
I'll go back and live again those happy days
Dream again beneath the cherry tree

(Instrumental Break)

I'll go back and sit beneath the cherry tree
Watch the petals falling down like snow
And a pair of swallows in the blue will sing
While a warm and gentle wind will blow

So, goodbye to all the lonely byways
There's no more that I would care to see
I'll go back and live again those happy days
Dream again beneath the cherry tree



(Transcribed by Mel Priddle - September 2017)