Just A Word Of Sympathy
Music by Egbert Van Alstyne
Words by Gustave Kahn
Published 1916

[Verse 1]
The world is sad and drear-y since we part-ed,
The sun-shine from my life has gone a-stray;
You left me all a-lone and brok-en heart-ed,

Do you re-mem-ber that Sep-tem-ber day;
For ev'-ry thing I gave, There's one thing that I crave:

[Chorus]
Just a lit-tle word of sym-pa-thy,
Just a lit-tle smile from you
Would turn the shad-ows in-to sun-shine
And make me cheer-y when life is drear-y;

Tho' I know the days can ne'er re-turn
when you loved me ten-der-ly,
Still deep with-in my heart,
I yearn for just a word of sym-pa-thy.

[Verse 2]
A-lone I slow-ly wan-der in the gloam-ing
To each dear place that once we used to know;
I dream of days when you and I were roam-ing,

Dear days, so far a-way and long a-go;
And yet for all I miss, I on-ly ask you this:

[Repeat Chorus]