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Thread #53788   Message #2092517
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
02-Jul-07 - 01:47 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair (Foster)
Subject: Lyr Add: COME WITH THY SWEET VOICE AGAIN (Foster)
Very close, dermod. Here are the lyrics from the sheet music.

Lyr. Add: COME WITH THY SWEET VOICE AGAIN
Stephen C. Foster 1854

1.
Come with thy sweet voice again,
To my heart still dear,
Laden with soft, soothing pain,
Like a tear, like a tear.
Bright visions, long vanished,
Round thy melodies beam:
Lulled in the lap of thy sighs,
Let me dream, let me dream.

Refrain:
Come again!
Comer with thy sweet voice again!
Come, oh! come again!
Come with thy sweet voice again!

2.
Bring not a language that tells
How the light hours roll:
Come with the music that wells
From thy soul, from thy soul.
Come not with bright off'rings,
Cold, unhallowed and new:
Bring but thine own gentle heart,
Ever true, ever true.

Refrain:

Sheet music published by Firth, Pond & Co., N. Y. 1854. Foster melodies No. 27.
http://www.stephen-foster-songs.de/Archiv02.htm
or direct to song:
http://www.stephen-foster-songs.de/Foster83.htm
Come With Thy Sweet

Many beautiful Foster melodies, so few heard now. All of them are at this website, with excellent midis.