When You And I Were Young, Maggie 1866
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_You_and_I_Were_Young,_Maggie
When You and I Were Young, Maggie is a famous folk song, popular song and standard. Though Springtown, Tennessee, has a small monument outside an old mill claiming the song was written by a local George Johnson, in 1820, for his Maggie, the truth is that its lyrics were written as a poem by the Canadian school teacher George Washington Johnson from Hamilton, Ontario. Margaret "Maggie" Clark was his pupil. They fell in love and during a period of illness, George walked to the edge of the Niagara escarpment, overlooking what is now downtown Hamilton, and composed the poem. The general tone is perhaps one of melancholy and consolation over lost youth rather than mere sentimentality or a fear of aging. It was published in 1864 in a collection of his poems entitled Maple Leaves. They were married in 1864 but Maggie's health deteriorated and she died on May 12, 1865. James Austin Butterfield set the poem to music and it became popular all over the world. George Washington Johnson died in 1917. The schoolhouse where the two lovers met still stands on the escarpment above Hamilton, and a plaque bearing the name of the song has been erected in front of the old building.[1][2][3] In 2005, George Washington Johnson was inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame.
When You and I Were Young, Maggie - John McCormack 1925
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBdR7MCmru4&hd=1
When You and I Were Young, Maggie - Will Oakland 1908
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0RuHNF_ojg&hd=1
When You & I Were Young Maggie - Henry Burr
1909 Version:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IT-dN_1JlKE&hd=1
1922 Version:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYwJRopNEMo&hd=1
When You and I Were Young, Maggie - Jan Peerce 1950
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRNlnqsJtAY&hd=1
I wandered today to the hill, Maggie
To watch the scene below
The creek and the rusty old mill, Maggie
Where we sat in the long, long ago
The green grove is gone from the hill, Maggie
Where first the daisies sprung
The old rusty mill is still, Maggie
Since you and I were young
A city so silent and lone, Maggie
Where the young and the gay and the best
In polished white mansion of stone, Maggie
Have each found a place of rest
Is built where the birds used to play, Maggie
And join in the songs that were sung
For we sang just as gay as they, Maggie
When you and I were young
They say I am feeble with age, Maggie
My steps are less sprightly than then
My face is a well written page, Maggie
But time alone was the pen
They say we are aged and gray, Maggie
As spray by the white breakers flung
But to me you're as fair as you were, Maggie
When you and I were young
And now we are aged and gray, Maggie
The trials of life nearly done
Let us sing of the days that are gone, Maggie
When you and I were young
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1D2c4AhGCpc&hd=1
