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Thread #149932 Message #3490759
Posted By: Jim Dixon
15-Mar-13 - 01:07 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: intro'Hindustan' jazz:Murder in the Mews
Subject: Lyr Add: HINDUSTAN (O G Wallace/H Weeks)
Here's my transcription from the sheet music at the Levy site; see the link above:
HINDUSTAN
Oliver G Wallace and Harold Weeks
Chicago: Forster Music Publisher, Inc., 1918.
1. Camel trappings jingle
Harp-strings sweetly tingle,
With a sweet voice mingle,
Underneath the stars;
Singing, memories are bringing,
Temple bells are ringing, calling me afar.
CHORUS: Hindustan, where we stopped to rest our tired caravan,
Hindustan, where the painted peacock proudly spread his fan,
Hindustan, where the purple sunbird flashed across the sand,
Hindustan, where I met her and the world began.
2. Shades of night are falling,
Nightingales are calling,
Ev'ry heart enthralling,
Underneath the stars;
Sighing, like the night wind dying,
Soft my heart is crying for my love afar.