A popular fox-trot song from 1919
Words and music by Abe Olman and Rudy Wiedoeft
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- Stars that gently glow in the skies
Remind me of her eyes
While moonbeams fill me
With yearnings that thrill me
It seems that I hear her sighs
But we’ll be together
E’er the new moon’s rise
Chorus:
There are eyes
That are watching for my karavan
Across the desert sand
They look for me
And seem to say, “Somebody’s lonely”
There were sighs
On the day my journey first began
That’s why I hurry
I know that she waits for me
There are arms that are waiting with a fond caress
Two lips that long to press my lips and say
Every day while you left me here to yearn
I have prayed for your return
Desert man, in your karavan
- I have wandered far, far away
But never more I’ll stray
My heart has sighed for
While my soul has cried for
My love every weary day
But a voice comes stealing
And seems to say