Bye and Bye (Dearest Enemy)

If you'll only bide the time and fortify your heart

Fortune will decide the time when sorrows will depart

Let's put heads together and be fancy-free

Make your troubles disappear

Let bliss appear and see

All the jolly times of days to be

By and by, not now, but by and by

Somehow we'll try and buy a little nest

Scheme a while, when lonely, dream a while, 'twill only

Scheme a while and love will do the rest

Oh, happy days will come, though slight delays will come

The bright sun's rays will come from out the sky

Every cloud just flies on

Love is on the far horizon

You'll be my sweetheart by and by

Why should we be sorrowful when just ahead we see

Pictures of tomorrow full of things that ought to be?

We won't know of trouble, we won't know of care

Every stormy weather, dear

Together did seem fair

While we dream of all we'll have to share

By and by, not now, but by and by

Somehow we'll try and buy a little nest

Scheme a while, when lonely, dream a while, 'twill only

Scheme a while and love will do the rest

Oh, happy days will come, though slight delays will come

The bright sun's rays will come from out the sky

Every cloud just flies on

Love is on the far horizon

You'll be my sweetheart by and by