Put Me To Sleep In Your Heart

Authors

Sam Lewis
Joe Young
Bert Grant

Document Type

Score

Publication Date

1919

Comments

Put Me To Sleep In Your Heart

(And Wake Me Up With Your Love)

Word by Sam Lewis & Joe Young

Music by Bert Grant

New York: Waterson, Berlin & Snyder Co. (1919)

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Lyrics

[Verse 1]
I’m in love, I’m in love,
Are the three words I sing constantly;
I’m in love, I’m in love, I’m in love,
Oh! my love made a poet of me;
Sun or rain,
My refrain,
Sings of love that is tender and true;
And I pray,
Night and day;
That the winds bring my poem to you.

[Chorus]
Put me to sleep in your heart, dear,
Cuddle me up in your arms;
Cradle me just like a bay,
With all your wonderful charms;
Cover me up with your eyes, dear,

Just like the blue skies above;
Put me to sleep in your heart, dear,
And let me wake up with your love.

[Verse 2]
I’m in love, I’m in love,
Seems to fit ev’ry song that I sing;
I’m in love, I’m in love,
Oh! what comfort those three words can bring;
Seems the tune,
That I croon,
I hear played on my heart strings one day;
And I know,
It was you;
Sent the melody dear right away.

[Chorus]

Recommended Citation

Lewis, Sam; Young, Joe; and Grant, Bert, "Put Me To Sleep In Your Heart" (1919). Historic Sheet Music Collection. 1200.
https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/sheetmusic/1200