Uploaded May 2013 | Updated September 2026, 3 days ago

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Down By The Old Mill Stream (1908) - Barbershop Quartet
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"Down by the Old Mill Stream" is a song written in 1908 by Tell Taylor. It was one of the most popular songs of the early 20th century. The song was written while Taylor was sitting on the banks of the Blanchard River in northwest Ohio. Reportedly, Taylor's friends persuaded him not to publish the song, believing it did not have commercial value. Two years later in 1910, however, the song was published and introduced to the public with performances by the vaudeville quartet, The Orpheus Comedy Four. After the group performed the song at an Woolworth store in Kansas City, it became so popular that the store sold out all one thousand of the copies of its sheet music Taylor had brought with him. Since then, over four million copies of its sheet music have been sold, and it has become a staple for barbershop quartets.


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My darling I am dreaming of the days gone by,
When you and I were sweethearts beneath the summer sky;
Your hair has turned to silver, the gold has faded too;
But still I will remember, where I first met you.

Down by the old mill stream where I first met you,
With your eyes of blue, dressed in gingham too,
It was there I knew that you loved me true,
You were sixteen, my village queen, by the old mill stream.