"Good Night Sweetheart" was published in 1931. It has verses in the original. Sheet music is in the Levy Collection, but no page images are given:
Title: Good Night Sweetheart. The Song Favorite of the King and Queen of England.
Composer, Lyricist, Arranger: by Ray Noble, Jimmy Campbell & Reg Connelly. American Version by Rudy Vallee. Ukulele Arr. by May Singhi Breen, "The Ukulele Lady."
Jimmy Campbell Reg Connelly Rudy Vallee May Singhi Breen Publication: New York: Robbins Music Corporation, by arrangement with Campbell, Connelly & Co., London, Eng., 1931.
Form of Composition: strophic with chorus
Instrumentation: piano and voice, ukulele
First Line: The day is over and its cares and woes in peaceful sweet repose will fade and die
First Line of Chorus: Good night Sweetheart, till we meet tomorrow
Performer: Introduced in American by Rudy Vallee. Also featured in Earl Carroll Vanities (9th Edition).
Engraver, Lithographer, Artist: unattrib. photo of Vallee
Advertisement: ads on inside bottom margins, on inside front and on back covers for Robbins Music Corporation stock
Plate Number: SH 827-3
Subject: Celebrities
Subject: Portraits
Subject: Love
Subject: Farewells
Call No.: Box: 190 Item: 077
Lyrics with verses are in Gottlieb and Kimball's Reading Lyrics (Pantheon, 2000, pp. 362-363).
GOOD NIGHT, SWEETHEART
VERSE 1:
The day is over and its cares and woes
In peaceful sweet repose
Will fade and die.
A dreamy dreamland beckons you and me.
How happy life would be,
If we could dream forever!
REFRAIN:
Good night, sweetheart,
Till we meet tomorrow.
Good night, sweetheart,
Sleep will banish sorrow.
Tears and parting
May make us forlorn,
But with the dawn
A new day is born.
(So I'll say) Good night, sweetheart,
Tho' I'm not beside you.
Good night, sweetheart,
Still my love will guide you.
Dreams enfold you,
In each one I'll hold you.
Good night, sweetheart, goodnight.
VERSE 2:
Let others dread the thought of parting time,
No reason or no rhyme
In thinking so.
To us the sweetest hour is parting time,
For then we really find
Love's perfect glow revealing.
REPEAT REFRAIN
~Masato