Let the Rest of the World Go By
1919
Words by J Keirn Brennan~Music by Ernest R Ball

~~~intro~~~

Is the struggle and strife,
we find in this life,
really worthwhile after all?
I've been wishing today,
I could just run away,
out where the west winds call.

With someone like you.
A pal good and true
I'd like to leave it all behind,
and go and find
Some place that's known,
to God alone
Just a spot to call our own.

We'll find perfect peace,
where joys never cease
Out there beneath the kindly sky.
We'll build a sweet little nest,
somewhere in the west
And let the rest of the world go by

Is the future to hold,
just struggles for gold.
While the real world waits outside,
Away out on the breast
of the wonderful west,
Across the great Divide

With someone like you,
a pal good and true
I'd like to leave it all behind,
and go and find

A place that's known to God alone
Just a spot to call our own.
We'll find perfect peace,
where joys never cease
Out there beneath the kindly sky.

We'll build a sweet little nest,
somewhere in the west
And let the rest of the world go by.

~~one more time~~

With someone like you,
A pal good and true
I'd like to leave it all behind,
And go and find
Some place that's known
To God alone
Just a spot to call our own.

We'll find perfect peace,
Where joys never cease
Out there beneath the kindly sky.
We'll build a sweet little nest,
Somewhere in the west
And let the rest of the world go by