How will we smile ever again?   I'm asking you sincerely, my dear old friend   What do you say, is there a way?   My dear old friend      How will we laugh just like before?   When there's water rising up to our door   And we may never see each other again   My dear old friend      Will there be someone to remember?   A little place that we loved   How the music played all night and day   Through the windows up above      How the birds sang in the morning   How the dog barked in the yard   I guess that's nothing much but everything to us   That's what seems so hard      How will we smile ever again?   I'm asking you sincerely, my dear old friend   The moon on the hill says we probably will   My dear old friend, my dear old friend