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Public-domain lyrics

Let the Great Big World Keep Turning

Clifford Grey

“Let the Great Big World Keep Turning” as printed in The Canadian Soldiers' Song Book (1918).

Clifford Grey: Collected Lyrics Text 2 1918 · historical text
Public domainSoldier songHistorical song
Complete public-domain lyrics

This text comes from The Canadian Soldiers' Song Book, a historical songbook transcribed on Wikisource and reproduced from the pinned revision linked below.

Verse 1

Let the great big world keep turning,

Never mind if I've got you,

For I only know that I want you so

And there's no one else will do.

You have simply set me yearning

And for ever I'll be true.

Let the great big world keep on turning round

Now I've found some-one like you.

Credits

Written by Clifford Grey

Words by Clifford Grey. Historical text published in The Canadian Soldiers' Song Book (1918); public domain. No claim to a modern recording or arrangement.

Source & text edition

The Canadian Soldiers' Song Book (1918), “Let the Great Big World Keep Turning”

The 1918 published edition is in the public domain in the United States (pre-1931 publication). Entries whose credited author died more than 70 years ago are also in the public domain in life-plus-70 jurisdictions; other entries are held.

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