Let The Rest Of The World Go By

J. Keirn Brennan, Ernest Ball.

Is the struggle and strife
We find in this life,
Really worth while, after all?
I’ve been wishing today
I could just run away,
Out where the west winds call.

Is the future to hold
Just struggles for gold,
While the real world waits outside.
Away out on the breast
Of the wonderful west,
Across the great divide.

With someone like you,
A pal good and true,
I’d like to leave it all behind.
And go and find some place
That’s known to God alone,
Just a spot to call our own.

We’ll find perfect peace,
Where joys never cease,
Out there beneath a kindly sky.
We’ll build a sweet little nest
Somewhere in the west,
And let the rest of the world go by.