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Thread #140021   Message #3216428
Posted By: Jim Dixon
01-Sep-11 - 07:55 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Indiana Lullaby (2 songs)
Subject: Lyr Add: INDIANA LULLABY (Terriss/Kendall)
While researching songs sung by the Happiness Boys, I discovered that there are 2 songs with the title INDIANA LULLABY published only a year apart. Having invested the time to transcribe the wrong one at first, I figured I might as well post it anyway (see above). The one I wanted is below.

You can see the sheet music for this one at the Archive of Popular American Music at UCLA (Click for a PDF.), or hear the song sung by the Happiness Boys at YouTube:


INDIANA LULLABY
Words by Dorothy Terriss. Music by Don Kendall.
New York: Leo. Feist, Inc., ©1922.

1. There's a melody that ever, ever haunts me,
Always in my memory;
Makes me homesick, lonesome; gives me such a longing,
For I hear it calling me.

CHORUS: Softly on the breeze,
Whisp'ring through the trees,
Comes this Indiana lullaby.
Always in my dreams,
Day and night it seems,
I can hear its plaintive little sigh.
There's a tugging at my heartstrings.
Indiana's calling me,
So I'll be going soon,
Just to hear the croon
Of that sweet old Indiana lullaby.

2. How I long to see that Indiana homestead,
And the flowers round the door!
There I know I'll nestle in two loving arms,
And hear that lullaby once more.


[Verse 2 is from the sheet music. The Happiness Boys sing only verse 1 and the chorus (twice).]