To my excellent friend and pupil,
        JOHN C. MEECHAM,
           New York
"Sweet Genevieve" (1869)
Song and Chorus
Words by
George Cooper [1838-1927]
Music by
Henry Tucker [1826-1882]

New York: Wm. A. Pond & Co., 507 Broadway and 39 Union Square
Milwaukee: H. N. Hempsted
San Francisco: M. Gray
Boston: White & Goullaud
Cinnati,O.: C. Y. Fonda
New Orleans: L. Grunewald
[Source: facsimile copy from pages 202-205 from
"Popular Songs of the Ninetheenth-Century America",
Selected, with an Introduction and Commentary,
by Richard Jackson, 1976. Dover Publications,
ISBN 0-486-23270-0]

1. O, Genevieve I'd give the world
To live again the lovely past!
The rose of youth was dew-impearled;
But now it withers in the blast.
I see thy face in ev'ry dream,
My waking thoughts are full of thee;
Thy glance is in the starry beam
That falls along the Summer sea.

CHORUS [sung after each VERSE]
O, Genevieve, Sweet Genevieve,
The days may come, the days may go,
But still the hands of mem'ry weave
The blissful dreams of long ago.

2. Fair Genevieve, my early love,
The years but make thee dearer far!
My heart shall never, never rove:
Thou art my only guiding star,
For me the past has no regret
Whate're the years may bring to me;
I bless the hour when first we met,--
The hour that gave me love and thee!

Coda, ad lib:
O, Genevieve!