A popular song from 1916.
Words by J. E. Dempsey.
Music by Earl Burtnett and Jos. A. Burke.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- I can see two eyes wherein the lovelight gleams
In my dreams, in my dreams
I can hear a voice, as sweet as singing streams
Calling me, it seems
O’er the old lagoon I see the glowworm playing
Shoreward I can see the shelt’ring palm trees swaying
While from afar I can hear a guitar
Someone keeps softly saying
Chorus
Come where the moon is always shining
Down Honolulu way
Come where the palm trees sway
Nighttime is just like day
And, while the sweet guitars are ringing
We’ll dream the night away
Where the moonbeams play on the distant bay
Down Honolulu way
- Dreamy eyes are watching on a south-sea isle
All the while, all the while
Pretty lips are waiting with a wistful smile
My heart to beguile
Softer than the water in the fountain falling
Sweeter than an angel’s eve’ning song enthralling
Whisp’ring to me of a blue, singing sea
Nightly a voice keeps calling
Sung here by Vancha March: