Dedicated to my Esteemed Friends, Mr. & Mrs. W. B. Lindsey
A Song for the Parlor--for the Concert--for the Minstrel.
The Beautiful Ballad,
"Say 'Au Revoir.' But Not 'Good-bye'" (1893)
Words and Music by Harry Kennedy
Quartet Arranged by Sigmund Spaeth (1925 [1940])

Brooklyn, NY: Kennedy Publishing House, 288 State Street
Broadway, NY: Ditson & Co.
Chicago, IL: National Music Co.
[Sources: pages 243-246 from
"Favorite Songs of the Nineties: Complete Original
Sheet Music for 89 Songs" (1973);
pages 29-31 from "Barber Shop Ballads and 
How to Sing Them" (1925,1940 [2nd printing])]

1. Say au Revoir, but not Goodbye,
For parting brings a bitter sigh;
The past is gone, tho’ mem’ry lives,
One clinging thought, the future gives;
Our duty firstm love must not lead,
What might have been, had fate decreed;
’Twere better far had we not met,
I lov’d you then, I lov’d you yet.

CHORUS [sung after each verse]
Say au Revoir, but not Goodbye,
Tho’ past is dead, love cannot die,
’Twere better far had we not met,
I lov’d you then, I love you yet,
I love you yet.

2. The waters glide, the oars lie still,
A rippling laugh, a word at will;
Where angels fear, fools dare not tread,
Shall live for years, tho’ past is dead;
This one goodbye must be our last,
The word is spoke, the die is cast,
But still my heart throbs wild with pain,
And tho’ we ne’er shall meet again,