Historic Sheet Music Collection
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Links to Recordings at the Internet Archive
https://archive.org/details/78_15029-Dardanella
https://archive.org/details/78_15397-Dardanella
https://archive.org/details/78_6186-Dardanella
https://archive.org/details/78_dardanella_adrian-rollini-trio-fisher-bernard-black-adrian-rollini-frank-victor-har_gbia0005543b
https://archive.org/details/78_dardanella_andre-previn-mack-mclean-bernard-black-fisher_gbia0029751a
https://archive.org/details/78_dardanella_andre-previn-mack-mclean-bernard-black-fisher_gbia0036794a
https://archive.org/details/78_dardanella_art-lowry-f-fisher-bernard-black_gbia0037112b
https://archive.org/details/78_dardanella_billy-murray-with-rega-orchestra-fisher-bernard-black_gbia0010599b
https://archive.org/details/78_dardanella_guy-lombardo-and-his-royal-canadians-felix-bernard-johnny-s-black-fred_gbia0031853b
https://archive.org/details/78_dardanella_harry-radermans-jazz-orchestra-f-bernard-j-s-black_gbia0023290b
https://archive.org/details/78_dardanella_jerry-murads-harmonicats-fisher-bernard-black_gbia0029750a
https://archive.org/details/78_dardanella_les-brown-and-his-orchestra-fisher-bernard-black_gbia0018515a
https://archive.org/details/78_dardanella_paul-bieses-novelty-orchestra-bernard-and-black_gbia0010174a
https://archive.org/details/78_dardanella_princes-dance-orchestra-bernard-and-black_gbia0016732b
https://archive.org/details/78_dardanella_princes-dance-orchestra-bernard-and-black_gbia0031703b
https://archive.org/details/78_dardanella_sanfords-famous-dance-orchestra-bernard-black_gbia0011268b
https://archive.org/details/78_dardanella_selvins-novelty-orchestra-felix-bernard-johnny-s.-burke_gbia0013415a
https://archive.org/details/78_dardanella_the-herbie-fields-quintet-fisher-bernard-black-herbie-fields-joseph-gatt_gbia0038068b
https://archive.org/details/78_dardanella_the-korn-kobblers-bernard-black_gbia0012790a
https://archive.org/details/78_on-the-sunny-side-of-the-street_morton-gould-and-his-orchestra-bernard-black-morton_gbia0012155
https://archive.org/details/78_dardanella-blues_billy-murray-ed.-smalle-fred-fisher-johnny-s.-black_gbia0013376aPublication Date
1919
Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Down beside the Dardanella Bay,
Where Oriental breezes play,
There lives a lonesome maid, Armenian.
By the Dardanelles with glowing eyes,
She looks across the seas and sighs,
And weaves her love spell so Sirenian.
Soon I shall return to Turkestan,
I will ask for her heart and hand:
[Chorus]
Oh sweet Dardanella,
I love your harem eyes,
I’m a lucky fellow to capture such a prize,
Oh Allah knows, my love for you
And he tells you to be true, Dardanella,
Oh hear my sigh, my Oriental,
Oh sweet Dardanella, prepare the wedding wine,
There’ll be one girl in my harem, when you’re mine.
We’ll build a tent
Just like the children of the Orient.
Oh sweet Dardanella, my star of live divine.
[Verse 2]
When the Turkish Sultan saw her eyes,
Oh he was taken by surprise,
He said I’ll buy her for my Harem.
I just told the Sultan to be nice.
She can’t be brought for any price,
She said to me she couldn’t bear him.
So beneath the Oriental moon,
I’ll be wooing my love real soon:
[Chorus]
Recommended Citation
Fisher, Fred; Bernard, Felix; and Black, Johnny S., "Dardanella" (1919). Historic Sheet Music Collection. 258.
https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/sheetmusic/258
The views expressed in this paper are solely those of the author.
Comments
Dardanella
Words by Fred Fisher
Music by Felix Bernard and Johnny S. Black
New York (224 w. 46th St): Published by McCarthy & Fisher Inc.(1919)
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