"If I Had My Way" (1913)
Ballad
Introduced in
Vaudeville with
Unprecedented Success
By
Ethel Green
Words by Lou Klein
Music by James Kendis

New York: James Kendis Music Co., 146 W. 45th St.
[Source: facsimile on pages 45-48 from
"Peg 'o My Heart and Other Song Hits, 1812- & 1913"
Edited by Stanley Applebaum
(New York: Dover Publications,Inc., 1989)]

1. I'd like to make your golden dreams come true, dear,
If I only had my way,
A paradise this world would seem to you, dear,
If I only had my way.

CHORUS [sung twice after each VERSE]
If I had my way, dear, forever there’d be
a garden of roses for you and for me,
A thousand and one things, dear
I would do,
Just for you, just for you, just for you.
If I had my way we would never grow old,
And sunshine I’d bring ev’ry day,
You would reign all alone, like a queen on a throne,
If I had my way.

2. You’d never know a care, a pain, or sorrow,
If I only had my way,
I’d fill your cup of happiness tomorrow,
If I only had my way.