LET BYGONES BE BYGONES
(Joseph George Gilbert - 1933)

Jack Jackson & His Orch. (vocal: Al Bowlly) - 1933
Jack Hylton & His Orch. - 1933
Lawrie Brooks - 1933
Issy Bonn - 1946
Doreen Harris - 1946
Joe Loss & His Orch. - 1946
Lou Preager & His Orch. (vocal: Rita Williams) - 1946
Billy Thornton's The Organ, Dance Band & Me(vocal: Harry Kaye) - 1946
Carroll Gibbons & The Savoy Orpheans (vocal: Denny Vaughan) - 1946
Skyrockets Dance Orch. (vocal: Cyril Shane) - 1946

Also recorded by:
Ella Shields; The Big Ben Banjo Band; The Four Musketeers.





As rec by ISSY BONN:


Let bygones be bygones,
And start all over again;
Let us forget our sorrow,
We must live for tomorrow!

Remember that the sunshine
Will always follow the rain,
So let bygones be bygones
And start all over again!

You know friends,at some time or other each and every one of
us has quarrelled with our best friend, and it's been pure
obstinacy on our part that stops us from making up. Why
must we live in the past and all that misery and sorrow?
Why can't we forget, and realise once and for all that -

We must live for tomorrow!

Remember that the sunshine
Will always follow the rain,
So let bygones be bygones
And start all over again!



(Transcribed by Peter Akers - July 2011)


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Opening patter as recorded by Al Bowlly with the Jack Jackson Orchestra,
February 24th 1933, London:


JACKSON: Why, hello George, I haven't seen you in forty years.

BOWLLY: Ah, yes, I've come back at last to the old home, to see my Wife.

JACKSON: To see your Wife. Why, what are you going to say to her when you see
her after all these years?

BOWLLY: Let bygones be bygones etc..........


(Transcribed by Mel Priddle - July 2011)