TO HAVE, TO HOLD, TO LOVE
>From the Broadway Musical "The Isle O' Dreams" (1913)
(Music: Ernest R. Ball / Lyrics: Darl MacBoyle)


Henry Burr - 1913
Bert Brown & Albert Pryor's Band (Instr.) - 1913


There comes a vision fair to me
Awake, asleep, alone
Your gentle face, dear heart, I see
I dream that you're my own

And in a flight of fancy, soar
With you to realms above
Then wake and want you more and more 
To have, to hold, to love

To have, to hold, to love you 
Forever and a day
To have you, dear, to hold you near
To worship you for e'er

The world would seem a dream, dear
And fair the skies above
If you, my own, were mine alone
To have, to hold, to love

My thoughts, dear heart, are all of you
At morn, at noon, at night
Each blossom seems of deeper hue
The stars above more bright

I've dared to hope this love of mine 
Would wake an answering call
All that I have to give is thine
My life, my love, my all

To have, to hold, to love you
Forever and a day
To have you, dear, to hold you near
To worship you for e'er

The world would seem a dream, dear
And fair the skies above
If you, my own, were mine alone
To have, to hold, to love



(Transcribed by Mel Priddle - January 2016)