Will You Forgive If I Forget?
Composer(s): Kurt Hirsekorn; Gabriel Selig



Oh could I but recall the past, dear 
and all its bright and happy hours! 
It would not be that now at last, dear
your love should fade like summer flowers 
our hands, our lips have met in gladness 
how can our lives be parted now 
Let love's roses banish sadness, recall the shadow from your brow!

To take your image from my heart, dear 
would be to take the light from day! 
and if our paths on earth should part, dear
my fondest hopes would fade away! 
Let not our little word now sever 
the bliss, the dreams that we have known! 
Oh, let us be sweethearts forever, let your dear love be all my own!

Say not farewell, ah leave that word unspoken 
which brings a tear a bitter sigh! 
say not the vows that once we made are broken 
by one sad word that word Goodbye! 
Oh! give me back your fond caresses 
I cannot help I love you yet 
the fault was mine my heart confesses 
will you forgive if I forget?