Only A Beautiful Picture (Wayne S. Morgan) w/lyrics & video

He stood in a beautiful mansion surrounded by riches untold,
And he gazed at a beautiful picture that hung in a frame of gold;
Was a picture of a lady, so beautiful, young and fair,
To the beautiful life-like vision he murmered in sad despair:

If those lips could only speak and those eyes could only see,
Those beautiful golden tresses were here in reality;
Could I only take your hand as I did when you took my name,
But it's only a beautiful picture in a beautiful golden frame.

He stood there and gazed at that picture, slumbering, forgetting all pain,
There in that mansion in fancy she stood by his side again;
His lips softly murmered the name of his woman sweet bride,
With his eyes fixed on the picture, he awoke from the dream and he cried:

If those lips could only speak, those eyes could only see,
Those beautiful golden tresses were here in reality;
Could I only take your hand as I did when you took my name,
But it's only a beautiful picture in a beautiful, golden frame...
But it's only a beautiful picture in a beautiful, golden frame.

####.... Variant of Charles Ridgewell and Will Godwin's 1907 variety song, If Those Lips Could Only Speak. Will Godwin is also noted as having sung the song (Sixty Old Time Variety Songs, Francis Day and Hunter, London, pp.74-76) ....####

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