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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.