Will You Love Me In December As You Do In May?

DESCRIPTION: "Now, in the summer of life, sweetheart You say you love but me," but the singer had a dream of when they are old and gray. So he asks, "Will You Love Me In December As You Do In May?" When they are old, will they still be in love
AUTHOR: Words: James J. Walker / Music: Ernest Ball
EARLIEST DATE: 1905 (written, according to Spaeth)
KEYWORDS: love age questions nonballad
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REFERENCES (2 citations):
Geller-FamousSongsAndTheirStories, pp. 222-224, "Will You Love Me In December As You Do In May?" (1 text, 1 tune)
ADDITIONAL: John Burke, _Burke's Christmas Songster 1918_, Herald Print, 1918 (PDF available on the Memorial University of Newfoundland site), p. 23, "Will You Love Me In December As You Do In May??" (1 text)
Roud #24853
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Will You Love Me When I'm Old?" (theme)
NOTES [98 words]: According to Sigmund Spaeth, A History of Popular Music in America, p. 350, James J. Walker, who wrote the words to this song, was a future mayor of New York City. Spaeth adds that E. B. Marks had produced a similar song in 1893, "December and May."
Edward Foote Gardner, Popular Songs of the Twentieth Century: Volume I -- Chart Detail & Encyclopedia 1900-1949, Paragon House, 2000, p. 271, estimates that this was the eighth most popular song in America in 1906, peaking at #1 in April 1906 (#1 for the year being Dave REed and Ernest Ball's "Love Me and the World Is Mine"). - RBW
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