WHEN YOU WERE SWEET SIXTEEN
(James Thornton)

George J. Gaskin - 1900
Jere Mahoney - 1900
Henry Macdonough - 1901
J. W. Myers - 1901
Al Jolson - 1929
Perry Como - 1947
The Mills Brothers - 1947
Dick Jurgens & His Orch. (vocal: Jimmy Castle) - 1947
The Fureys with Davy Arthur - 1981
Also recorded by: Shirley Temple; Josef Locke; Etta James; 
Bobby Darin; Val Doonican; The Ink Spots; Timmy Flaherty; 
Houghton Weavers; Ann Williamson: Norman Luboff Choir; 
Norman Luboff Choir; John MacNally; Brian Dullaghan. 


You were sweet sixteen, you were sweet sixteen

I love you as I never loved before! 
Since first I met you on the village green. 
Come to me, or my dream of love is o'er! 
I love you as I loved you, 
When you were sweet 
When you were sweet sixteen. 

When first I saw the lovelight in your eye, 
And dreamt the world held naught but joy for me. 
And even though we drifted far apart, 
I never dreamt of what I dream of thee 

I love you as I never loved before! 
Since first I met you on the village green. 
Come to me, or my dream of love is o'er! 
I love you as I loved you, 
When you were sweet 
When you were sweet sixteen. 


(Contributed by boB Cartlidge - July 2002)


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WHEN YOU WERE SWEET SIXTEEN
From the film "Little Miss Broadway" (1938)
(James Thornton)

Shirley Temple


I loved you as I've never loved before
Since first I met you on the village green (the village green)
Come to me ere my dream of love is o'er
I loved you as I..(aww that's terrible *complaints*...)

[Dialogue Part]
(Man)
Just a moment now, I was standing right here, someone was a
little bit sour...

(Shirley)
It was you!

(Man)
What? Well, what do you know about music? (mock laughter)
Well of all the impertinence...

(Shirley)
You were off-key, that part goes like this
'I loved you as I loved you, when you were sweet...'

(Man)
That's just the way I did it..

[Oh no...disagreement from the other guys]

(Man)
I did!

(Shirley)
Let's try it again

(Man)
All right you take it

(Shirley)
I loved you as I loved you, when you were...

(Together)
Sweet...when you were sweet...sixteen

(Laughter)


(Contributed by Ferda Dolunay - November 2004)