If we can't be the same old sweethearts,

then we'll just be the same old friends!



For I want someone like you

just to tell my troubles to,

my happiness, on you,

it all depends!



For I've known you too long to forget you

and my old dream of love never ends!

Though I know you can't be mine,

we will meet from time to time

and we'll just be the same old friends!



< instrumental verse >



For I've known you too long to forget you

and my old dream of love never ends!

Though I know you can't be mine,

we will meet from time to time

and we'll just be the same old friends!



Music by James V. Monaco

with lyrics by Joseph McCarthy , 1915