Ever Remembered That Bomb Gag From The Cartoons?

Perhaps one of the greatest enigmas in one's childhood is what song was played in those bomb jokes? Today, the digital age provides a lot of answers to childhood enigmas. It turns out that the music used in the bomb joke. The first line is being used and the note often misses. The perpetrator usually becomes the victim of it.


It turns out to be a song called "Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms". Here's the lyrics of the song:

BELIEVE me, if all those endearing young charms,
Which I gaze on so fondly to-day,
Were to change by to-morrow, and flee from my arms
Like fairy-gifts, fading away!
Thou wouldst still be ador'd as this moment thou art,
Let thy loveliness fade as it will;
And, around the dear ruin, each wish of my heart
Would entwine itself verdantly still!

II.
It is not while beauty and youth are thine own,
And thy cheeks unprofan'd by a tear,
That the fervour and faith of a love can be known,
To which time will but make thee more dear!
No! the heart that has truly lov'd, never forgets,
But as truly loves on to the close;
As the sun-flower turns on her god, when he sets,
The same look which she turn'd when he rose!