Historic Sheet Music Collection
Title
Document Type
Score
Links to Recordings at the Internet Archive
https://archive.org/details/78_by-the-campfire_peerless-quartet-mabel-elizabeth-girling-percy-wenrich_gbia0015510a
https://archive.org/details/78_by-the-campfire_sterling-trio-wenrich_gbia0012375a
https://archive.org/details/78_by-the-campfire_vincents-band-wenrich_gbia0006706aPublication Date
1919
Lyrics
Where the waters kiss the silent shore,
There’s a little pot that I adore,
When the evening shadows fall,
And the night winds call;
In a nook just underneath the trees
Where old nature sends a gentle breeze,
I will build a campfire dear,
Just to cheer, while you’re near.
Refrain
Come where the campfire is gleaming,
Come where the fireflies are beaming,
Down where the river is streaming by,
There I’ll waiting for you,
waiting where the flames are glowing
To tell you I adore you,
underneath the clear moonlight so bright;
Come where my banjo is ringing,
Where summer breezes are singing,
Down where the night owl is winging, too;
I hear him calling you,
Yes, the owl is calling you,
Oh, my honey,
Come by the campfire,
Come by the campfire bright.
I can see the moonlight on your hair,
There’s a little spot that I adore,
Lighting up your beauty rare,
In the fire light’s call; In a nook just underneath the trees,
Long to hear you tell me you’ll be true,
There beneath the summer skies,
Magic lies, in your eyes.
(to Refrain)
Recommended Citation
Girling, Mabel Elizabeth and Wenlich, Percy, "By the Campfire" (1919). Historic Sheet Music Collection. 171.
https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/sheetmusic/171
The views expressed in this paper are solely those of the author.
Comments
Lyrics by Mabel Elizabeth Girling
Music by Percy Wenrich
Copyright MCMXIX by LEO.FEIST, Inc., Feist Building, N.Y.
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