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DOWN BY THE OLD MILL STREAM
 Original Sheet Music
Words and Music by Tell Taylor
1908
4-Bar Intro
 
Verse 1
 
             D7 G   C#°  G C  Bm    D7      G#° D7        G
             MY DAR-LING I AM DREAM-ING, OF THE DAYS GONE BY,
       Bm   C              G                A7                D7
       WHEN YOU AND I WERE SWEET-HEARTS, BE-NEATH THE SUM-MER SKY;
       D7   G    C#° G      C  Bm  D7            G#° D7  F#7 B7
       YOUR HAIR HAS TURNED TO SIL-VER, THE GOLD HAS FAD-ED  TOO;
          B7  E7              A7               C#°       D7
          BUT STILL I WILL RE-MEM-BER, WHERE I FIRST MET YOU.
 
 
Verse 2
 

           D7  G   C#°  G     C  Bm D7        G#° D7      G
           THE OLD MILL WHEEL IS SI-LENT, AND HAS FAL-LEN DOWN,
      Bm  C                G              A7                D7
      THE OLD OAK TREE HAS WITH-ERED, AND LIES THERE ON THE GROUND;
       D7    C   C#° G C   Bm    D7               G#°D7   F#7 B7
       WHILE YOU AND I ARE SWEET-HEARTS, THE SAME AS DAYS OF  YORE;
         B7 E7                   A7                    C#° D7
         AL-THOUGH WE'VE BEEN TO-GETH-ER, FOR-TY YEARS OR  MORE.

 
 
Chorus
 

                         G   C#   D7                    D7  G
             DOWN BY THE OLD MILL STREAM, WHERE I FIRST MET YOU,
              G              Bm C E7 Am            D7   D7+ G
              WITH YOUR EYES OF BLUE,   DRESSED IN GING-HAM TOO.
                G            C#° D7                   B7 Em
                IT WAS THERE I   KNEW, THAT YOU LOVED ME TRUE.
                                 Eb7               G    E7
                    YOU WERE SIX-TEEN, MY VIL-LAGE QUEEN,
                           E7     A7  Bm   G
                           BY THE OLD MILL STREAM.