# After so long

- Music: Louisa Gray (died 1911)
- Words: Helen Marion Burnside (died 1923)
- Licence of the score: CC0 1.0
- Credit: OpenScore Lieder Corpus (CC0)
- Source: https://musescore.com/openscore-lieder-corpus/scores/6617407

## The words

We’ve journey’d together so long,  
sweetheart, That it's sad to be parted now;  
When your locks that were brown as the chestnut,  
once, Are white as the drifted snow;  
You've borne all my burdens with me,  
sweetheart, Through all that has come and gone,  
And it pains me to leave you to bear them now,  
To bear them the rest of the journey alone,  
To bear them the rest of the journey alone,  
To bear them alone, all alone, all alone.  
And after so long we must part, sweetheart,  
For it draweth to even tide, And we've  
lighten'd the toil of our long day's task,  
So cheerily side by side;  
You'll think of me often, I know,  
sweetheart. And the little one,  
too that has gone;  
And the tears that you'll shed will be sadder  
still, Because you must weep, you must weep all  
alone, Because you must weep, must weep alone,  
Alone, alone, you must weep all alone.  

Songs to sing here are made from public-domain scores: the OpenScore Lieder Corpus (CC0), the Mutopia Project (each score's licence as Mutopia states it) and the scores in Japanese Wikipedia's articles (CC BY-SA 4.0, by each article's contributors); dates and first publications as IMSLP, the LiederNet Archive, Mutopia and Wikidata state them. Karaoke videos play in YouTube's player; live channels from the iptv-org database on their own pages; stations from Radio Browser. The piano is the Salamander Grand Piano by Alexander Holm (CC BY 3.0).