Just Like the Ivy

DESCRIPTION: An old garden wall is covered in ivy. An old man talks to a young woman. He says, "Some day you'll be forgetting me." She says, "When you grow older I'll be constant and true Just like the ivy [clinging to the wall], I'll cling to you."
AUTHOR: A. J. Mills and Harry Castling (source: sheet music)
EARLIEST DATE: 1902 (source: sheet music)
KEYWORDS: age love dialog nonballad youth
FOUND IN: Ireland
REFERENCES (1 citation):
OCroinin/Cronin-TheSongsOfElizabethCronin 77, "Just Like the Ivy" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #16228
NOTES [17 words]: Thanks to Dr. Ortwin Knorr for pointing out the sheet music with the authorship and date information. - RBW
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File: OCC077

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