Chords for Henry Burr - If You Were the Only Girl in the World (and I Were the Only Boy) (1917)

[G] _ I wish you [A] all the [Bm] best,
[B] _
[E] and I [A] [F#m] hope [D] you'll stay. _
_ _ [F#] Sometimes _ [G] [C#] when I feel bad,
[D] and deep [E] blue [C#] _ blue, _
[D] _ I [Em] wish [F#] the girl I had,
[D] may [E] want [Em] like _ you.
[F#m] _
[C#] Someone _ [F#m] within [B] my heart to [Bm]
build [A] her _ throne, _
[F] someone _ [F#m] who'd never part [E] to call [A] my _ [E] own.
[D] _
[F#] I'll try [G] and love [A] to be [D] dear,
[E] long [A] gone through.
_ [F#] _ I [C#] [F#m] sigh a [E] word to reach dear,
just made for me [A] and [Em] you.
_ [D] _
If you were [B] the only [E] girl in [C#m] the [Bm] world,
[F#m] and I were [Bm] the [C#m] only [D] _ boy,
_ nothing else would matter in [G] the world today.
[A] We could go on loving in [D] the same old way,
a garden [B] of Eden [G] just made [C#m] for [Bm] two,
[F#m] with [E] nothing [A] to [D] mar our [D#m] [E] joy.
[A] _
[D] I [Bm] would say such [F#m] wonderful things to you,
[G] there would be [D] such wonderful [B] things to do.
[G] If you were [Em] the only [D]
girl in [B] the world,
[E] and I [G] were the only [D] _ boy. _
If you were the [B] [E] only girl in [Bm] the [A] world,
and I [Bm] were [C#] the [D] only _ [A] boy,
[D] nothing else would matter [G] in the world today.
[A] We could go on loving [D] in the same old way,
a garden [B] of Eden [E] just [Bm] made for two,
[F#m] with nothing [E] to [F#] mar [D] our _ joy.
I would say [F#] such wonderful things to you,
[G] there would be [D] such wonderful [B] things to do.
[G] If you were the [D] only girl in [B] the world,
[Bm] [E] and I were [C#] the _ [D] only boy. _