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