And faces that we used to see, Are hidden now forever,

But all the haunts we lov'd so well, When we were young and free,

In quiet beauty still remain Down by the sounding sea.

CHORUS: Down by the sea, down by the sea

O! will you e'er forget

The happy hours we've pass'd my love,

Down by the sounding sea?

2. 'Twas there that first we met my love, The time I well remember,

When all the earth was sleeping in The sweetness of September;

'Twas there a princely sinecure, Was given unto me,

The virgin love of maiden dear Down by the sounding sea.

3. The mem'ry of those happy days Is bright with regal splendor,

And fills my heart with sweetest dreams, So truthful and so tender;

And oft I sigh in summer hours To be again with thee,

Among the haunts we lov'd so well, Down by the sounding sea.

Thy gentle voice my spirit can cheer;

Thou wert the star that mildly beaming,

Shone o'er my path when all was dark and drear.

Still in my heart thy form I cherish,

Ev'ry kind thought like a bird flies to thee;

Ah! never till life and mem'ry perish,

Can I forget how dear thou art to me;

Morn, noon and night where-e'er I may be.

Fondly I'm dreaming ever of thee,

Fondly I'm dreaming ever of thee!

Ever of thee when sad and lonely,

Wand'ring afar my soul joy'd to dwell;

Ah! then I felt I lov'd thee only;

All seem'd to fade before affection's spell.

Years have not chill'd the love I cherish;

True as the stars, hath my heart been to thee;

Ah! never till life and mem'ry perish,

Can I forget how dear thou art to me;

Morn, noon and night, wher-e'er I may be,

Fondly I'm dreaming ever of thee,

Fondly I'm dreaming ever of thee!

The darkness deepens, Lord, with me abide:

When other helpers fail, and comforts flee,

Help of the helpless, oh, abide with me!

Swift to it's close ebbs out life's little day;

Earth's joys grow dim, it's glories pass away;

Change and decay in all around I see:

O Thou who changest not, abide with me!

I need Thy presence ev'ry passing hour:

What but Thy grace can foil the tempter's power?

Who like Thyself my guide and stay can be?

Through cloud and sunshine, Oh, abide with me!

I fear no foe, with Thee at hand to bless:

Ills have no weight, and tears no bitterness:

Where is death's sting? Where grave thy victory?

I triumph still, If thou abide with me!

Hold Thou the cross before my closing eyes!

Shine the gloom, and point me to the skies!

Heav'ns morning breaks, And earth's vain shadows flee:

In life and death, O Lord, abide with me.

Into my heart comes a feeling of love that's true and undying;

For you, sweetheart, I am sighing.

Down by the stream where we wander'd

Under the pale moonlight beaming,

There's where I linger and dream of you

Darling Dreaming.

CHORUS: Dreaming, Dreaming of you sweetheart I am dreaming,

Dreaming of days when you loved me best

Dreaming of hours that have gone to rest,

Dreaming, Dreaming

Love's own sweet message I'm bringing,

Years have not changed the old love still remains,

Dreaming.

2. Years have gone by, still I love you

Tho' there's another who won you out of my life you have drifted;

Yet in my heart You still linger.

Dreaming or waking I see you,

I can forgive not forget you

In life and death I'll await your return while

I'm Dreaming

I have had sweet dreams of childhood's bright and sunny hours,

When I wander'd all day by the sparkling streams,

And cull'd for my mother the gay wild flow'rs.

When I wove her a wreath of the greenwoodbine,

And twin'd in it berries and violets gay!

And I crown'd her pale forehead and she kiss'd mine,

Ah! she like the flowers has faded away,

She has faded away! faded away!

I have had bright dreams of the old elm tree,

Beneath whose branches spreading wide,

I have sported away, in childish glee

The fleet-winged hours of the eventide.

I had dream'd of the friends once gather'd there,

To frolic away the long summer's day,

Untrammel'd by fear, unwearied by care,

But they like the rest have faded away,

They have faded away, faded away.

I have had bright dreams as I've wander'd alone,

When still midnight in silence reign'd,

When my own pale star shone bright from it's throne,

And in visions of hope my soul was chain'd.

But the cares of earth would come again,

The heart would grow sick with hope's delay,

And the visions I wove of my destiny then

Ah! they like the rest have faded away, they have faded away! faded away!

I have had sweet dreams of a fairy form,

That was ever around me there,

Of her bird-like voice with its silvery charm,

Floating away on the evening air.

But alas for the flush and the wasting breath!

Alas for thy terrible power decay!

An angel beckoned her home from the earth,

Like the morning star she faded away!

She has faded away faded away!

DInah! the busy bumble bees are hummin', honey;

Please pack your duds and come back,

Don't wait and if the train's late

Jump out and run ahead, hon',

Beat that old train to me!

REFRAIN: Dinah! come on back to Carolina

I'm kind a lonely,

For you my heart is pinin'

While the silv'ry moon is shinin'.

Dinah! never saw the weather finer

In Carolina,

Come back to Carolina, Dinah Lee!

2. Dinah! the honeymoon in June will soon be shinin',

Dinah! the honeysuckle down the lane is twining;

I've got a wedding ring, dear,

I've got the preacher right here;

I've got a cottage too, dear,

Fixed up for me and you!

I dreamt a happy dream,

Methought I was in heav'n above,

And saw its crystal gleam.

And calm amid the glory,

There stood a singer fair,

Who through the stillness of the night,

Sent forth this song of pray'r

"Father in Heav'n above,

Glorious and mighty

Send forth Thy Light of Love,

O King most mighty Father,

Glorious and mighty,

Send forth Thy Light of Love, Thy Light of Love"

Then in my dream celestial,

I heard the din of strife,

With all earth's cares and sorrows,

And bitterness of life;

The cry of the little children,

The moan of the poor and sad,

This song from God's bright angel

Was set to make them glad.

Father in Heav'n above,

Glorious and mighty

Send forth Thy Light of Love,

O King most mighty Father,

Glorious and mighty,

Send forth Thy Light of Love, Thy Light of Love.

And far in that world of glory

With God's eternalthrong,

Beyond the gates of Paradise

Where all is one dream of song,

The voice of the Heav'nly singer

Shall send forth the old refrain

When sun and stars have faded,

No more to rise again.

Father in Heav'n above,

Glorious and mighty

Send forth Thy Light of Love,

O King most mighty Father,

Glorious and mighty,

Send forth Thy Light of Love, Thy Light of Love.

When all was silent there,

Above the village lone and still,

The moon was rising fair;

And o'er me stole a wondrous dream,

I saw the Holy Child

In peaceful slumber once again

Beside His Mother mild.

I heard the voice of angel throngs,

I saw the gleam of angel wings,

They sang "Rejoice! thy King has come,

Great joy to Earth He brings!"

The song had ceased my dream was changed,

I saw in after years

The Saviour's path of sorrow,

The cup he drank of tears.

No earthly throne of pow'r had He,

No legions from above,

But when the children came to Him,

He blessed them with His love.

When I beheld Him once again,

His earthly work was o'er,

I heard Him breathe His last farewell

To these He loved of yore.

A cloud from Heav'n o'er shadow'd Him,

And then he pass'd away

To meet them soon at

The fairyland I long to see Is Home! ... sweet Home!

There, how charm'd the sense of hearing!

There, where love is so endearing!

All the world is not so cheering As Home ... sweet Home

The dearest spot of earth to me Is Home ... sweet Home

The fairyland I long to see is Home sweet Home.

2. I've taught my heart the way to prize My Home ...sweet Home

I've learn'd to look with lover's eyes On Home ... sweet Home!

There where vows are truly plighted,

There, where hearts are so united,

All the world besides I've slighted

For Home ... sweet Home!

The dearest spot of earth to me Is Home ... sweet Home.

The fairyland I long to see is Home sweet Home.

From de clime where I was born,

And my old heart has grown so sad,

dejected and forlorn;

No massa kind to treat me well,

To cheer me when in pain,

I want to see de cotton field,

And dat dear old home again.

CHORUS: Dem good old times am past and gone,

I sigh for dem in vain,

I want to see de cotton fields,

And dat dear old home again.

2. I'm left alone to wander now,

When my days am very few,

Both wife and children now are gone,

I don't know what to do;

My massa, too, he may be dead,

His hair was turning gray,

O! let me see dat dear old home,

Before I pass away.

Back to your baby days,

Feeling the joys that a baby brings

Out of God's wond'rous ways;

Seeming to hear the first pray'r that you said,

Longing to tuck you in bed_

There's no one knows how I long for you now,

Here with my arms outspread.

2. Boy of mine, Boy of mine,

Altho' my heart was aching,

I seemed to know you'd want to go,

Pride in your manhood waking.

I'll be here, waiting, dear,

Till at a glad dawn's breaking,

I'll hear you say you're home to stay,

Dear little boy of mine,

Dear little boy of mine.

3. Out of the mist of those wonderful years,

I see your baby smile,

Days when I kissed you and dried your tears,

Seem such a little while;

Hearing the words mother taught you to say,

Watch you at your childish play,

For always in dreams you're with me it seems,

Just as you'll be some day.

To live my childhood o'er again ...

And see thy clear, love beaming eye ...

Outshine the stars up in the sky,

Oh mother dear bright sunny rays,

That give such joy and heav'nly bliss,

As by thy knee I used to pray,

Or climb'd to steal affection's kiss.

CHORUS: Oh mother dear I sigh in vain

To live my childhood o'er again,

And see thy clear love beaming eye,

Outshine the stars up in the sky.

Oh! mother dear, Oh! my mother dear.

2. Oh! mother dear, those early scenes,

The flow'ry fields, and meadows green,

As thoughts come back I heave a sigh,

And wish for happy days gone by;

Long since I left my native shore,

But now my heart beats just as then,

Tho' miles of sea between us roar,

Dear mother I'll come again.

There I've whiled many happy hours away,

A sitting and a singing by the little cottage door

Where lived my darling Nelly Gray.

CHORUS: Oh! my poor Nelly Gray, they have taken you away

And I'll never see my darling any more,

I'm sitting by the river and I'm weeping all the day,

For you've gone from the old Kentucky shore.

2. When the moon had climb'd the mountain and the stars were shining too,

Then I'd take my darling Nelly Gray,

And we'd float down the river in my little red canoe,

While my banjo sweetly I would play.

3. I went to see her but "she's gone!" the neighbors say,

The white man bound her with his chain,

They have taken her to Georgia for to wear her life away,

As she toils in the cotton and the cane.

4. My canoe is underwater and my banjo is unstrung,

I'm tired of living any more,

My eyes shall look downward and my songs shall be unsung

While I stay on the old Kentucky shore.

5. My eyes are getting blinded and I cannot see my way,

Hark! there's somebody knocking at the door

Oh! I hear the angels calling and I see my Nelly Gray

Farewell to the old Kentucky shore.

CHORUS: Oh! my darling Nelly Gray, up in heaven there they say,

That they'll never take you from me any more,

I'm a coming coming coming, as the angels clear the way,

Farewell to the old Kentucky shore.

Touched deep by their sweet melodies,

But the song that I heard thru a window last night,

Will live in my memory.

2. There's many a girl with her sweetheart tonight,

As happy as happy can be,

And there's many a one who is singing tonight,

The words to this melody.

CHORUS: Bring back the days of a short while ago,

The ones I use to know,

In fancy I see him when he went away,

Standing in the moonlight rays,

His eyes all aglow with the lovelight

That only a sweetheart knows.

Oh what I'd give, only to live,

In the days of a short while ago.

From glen to glen, and down the mountain side,

The summer's gone and all the roses falling,

It's you, it's you must go and I must bide.

But come ye back when summer's in the meadow,

Or when the valley's hushed and white with snow,

It's I'll be here in sunshine or in shadow,

Oh, Danny Boy, I love you, love you so!

But when ye come, and all the flowers are dying,

If I am dead, as dead I well may be,

Ye'll come and find the place where I am lying,

And kneel and say an Ave there for me;

And I shall hear, though soft you tread above me,

And all my grave will warmer, sweeter be

For you will bend and tell me that you love me,

And I shall sleep in peace until you come to me!

Where the trees of Bamboo sway

Where the sea is always moonlit

And they call it Bamboo Bay

There's a thousand dreams about it

That are ever on my mind

There I said farewell

And sad to tell I left my heart behind

CHORUS: Drifting down on Bamboo Bay

With my love at close of day

Night birds in the skies above

Cried while I sighed "I love you"

When the dawn kiss'd Bamboo Bay

What else was there but Au revoir to say

I never knew I'd lost my heart

Until the night we had to part

On the shores of Bamboo Bay

2. And I love the most to picture

Where the trees of Bamboo sway

When the big blue moon is rising

O'er the shores of Bamboo Bay

There I see a Hindu maiden

One whose heart will ever yearn

There I said farewell

And sad to tell I promised to return

Longing for the days gone by When we were happy you and I.

CHORUS: In Bangalore I want to be once more

Where moonbeams grand form a path on the golden sand

Tropic breeze and whisp'ring trees

They seem to come back once more

Won't you come back to Bangalore.

2. Mem'ries of you by my side Roaming 'cross the desert wide

Incense perfume fills the air Oh how I wish that I were there.

Radiant night, with stars above, O beauteous night of love!

Fleeting time doth ne'er return, But bears on wings our dreaming,

Far away where we may yearn, For time doth ne'er return.

Sweet zephyrs aglow, Shed on us thy caresses,

Sweet zephyrs aglow, Thy soft kisses bestow,

Thy soft kisses bestow, Thy soft bisses bestow. Ah!

Beauteous night, O night of love, Smile thou on our enchantment,

Radiant night with stars above, O beauteous night of love!

Beauteous night of love, Ah! Smile on our enchantment,

Night of love! O night of love! Ah! ah! ah! ah!

Belle nuit, ô nuit d'amour, Souris á nos ivresses!

Nuit plus douce que le jour, Ô belle nuit d'amour!

Le temps fuit et sans retour Emporte nos tendresses;

Loin decet heureux séjour Le temps fuit sans retour.

Séphirs embrasés, Versez nous vos caresses,

Zéphirs embrasés, Donnez nous vos baisers,

Versez nous vos baisers, Versez nous vos baisers! Ah!

Belle nuit, ô nuit d'amour, Souris à nos ivresses!

Nuit plus douce que le jour, Ô belle nuit d'amour!

O belle nuit d'amour! Ah! Souris à nos ivresses,

Nuit d'amour! ô nuit d'amour! Ah! ah! ah! ah!