(Song of the Swamp)
A top hit from 1927
words by Gus Kahn
music by Neil Moret (Charles N. Daniels)
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- Chloe! Chloe!
Someone callin’, no reply
Night shades fallin’, hear him sigh
Chloe! Chloe!
Empty spaces meet his eyes
Empty arms outstretched, he’s cryin’
Refrain
Through the black of night
I got to go where you are
If it’s wrong or right
I got to go where you are
I’ll roam through the dismal swampland
Searching for you
‘Cause if you are lost there
Let me be there, too
Through the smoke and flame
I’ve got to go where you are
For no place could be too far
Where you are
Ain’t no chains can bind you
If you live, I’ll find you
Love is calling me
I got to go where you are
- Chloe! Chloe!
Dawn is creepin’ thru the tree
Been no sleepin’ not for me
Chloe! Chloe!
Be no restin’, got to go
Got to go and find my Chloe
Sung here by Laurence Rubenstein: