A popular song from 1920.
words by Alex Rogers
music by C. Luckeyth Roberts
The sheet music:
Accompaniment:
Lyrics
Ulana, fair maid is sad today
For her Botonga has gone away
Has gone to look for his dream mate fair
To a spot on the banks of the Nile somewhere
The Nile flows along just the same so they say
Still he waits while he doubts as he sings day by day
Chorus
My jewel of the big blue Nile
I wait for thee, I wait for thee
But something’s whispering all the while
In dreams to me, it seems to me
I’ll wait here by the big blue Nile
Yes wait throughout eternal after while
For my precious priceless
Jewel of the big blue Nile
Sung here by Fred Feild: