WHEN YOU WERE MY SWEETHEART

(L) Joe Gilbert, (M) Noel Gay

As recorded by:
Harry Bidgood’s Band (as Lew Sylva & His Band)
V. Sam Browne
Recorded 23rd February 1931

Also recorded by:
Jack Payne & His Orchestra
Ambrose & His Orchestra



You were my sweetheart when I was a kid
Often I dream of the things that we did
When you were my sweetheart
And I was the kid next door

We stole our kisses when we were alone
We vowed we’d live just like Darby and Joan
When you were my sweetheart
And I was the kid next door

Though years have gone my love lives on
And here’s one thing that I’ve seen
You’re just as sweet, yes just as sweet
As when you were sweet sixteen

In leisure moments I always recall
Those happy moments when our love was all
When you were my sweetheart
And I was the kid next door




(Transcribed from John Wright’s 78 RPM Record Collection
 by Bill Huntley -December 2013)