Historic Sheet Music Collection
Title
Document Type
Score
Links to Recordings at the Internet Archive
https://archive.org/details/78_my-hero_deanna-durbin-victor-young-and-his-orchestra-oscar-straus-stanislaus-stange_gbia0034555a
https://archive.org/details/78_my-hero_four-aces-al-alberts-oscar-strauss-stanislaus-stange_gbia0031855a
https://archive.org/details/78_my-hero_lucy-isabelle-marsh-oscar-straus_gbia0019327a
https://archive.org/details/78_my-hero_lucy-isabelle-marsh-oscar-straus_gbia0033389a
https://archive.org/details/78_my-hero_lucy-marsh-oscar-strauss_gbia0033551a
https://archive.org/details/78_my-hero_oscar-straus-the-columbia-concert-orchestra-straus_gbia0003839a
https://archive.org/details/78_my-hero_ralph-flanagan-and-his-orchestra-stanistaus-stange-oscar-straus_gbia0019029a
Publication Date
1909
Lyrics
VERSE 1
I have a true and noble lover,
He is my sweetheart, all my own,
His like on earth who shall discover?
His heart is mine, and love thee ever.
We pledged our troth each to the other,
And for our happiness I pray,
Our lives belong to one another.
Oh happy, happy wedding day,
Oh happy, happy wedding day.
CHORUS
Come! Come! I love you only,
My heart is true,
Come! Come! My life is lonely,
I long for you,
Come! Come! Naught can efface you,
My arms are aching to embrace you,
Thou art divine!
Come! Come! I love you only,
Come, hero mine.
VERSE 2
It is my duty to bow before thee,
It is my duty to love, adore thee!
It is my duty to love thee ever,
To love thee ever, love thee ever.
We pledged our troth each to the other,
And for our happiness I pray,
Our lives belong to one another.
Oh happy, happy wedding day,
Oh happy, happy wedding day.
CHORUS
Recommended Citation
Straus, Oscar and Stange, Stanislaus, "My Hero" (1909). Historic Sheet Music Collection. 1667.
https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/sheetmusic/1667
The views expressed in this paper are solely those of the author.
Comments
F.C. Whitney's production The Chocolate Soldier Opera Bouffe.
Libretto by Bernauer and Jacobson based on George Bernard Shaw's "Arms and the Man"
Music by Oscar Straus English libretto by Stanislaus Stange
London B. Feldman & Co. 2&3 Arthur Street, New Oxford Street. W.C.Jerome H. Remick & Co. New York Detroit
Cover illustration signed De Takacs
English words by Stanislaus Stange Music by Oscar Straus
Copyright 1908 by Ludwig Doblinger, (Bernhard Herzmansky) LeipzigCopyright MCMIX by Jerome H. Remick & Co. New York & Detroit
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