Lucia

(My Italian Maid)
from the 1906 production “Neptune’s Daughter”
words and music by Manuel Klein

The sheet music:

Lucia – Sheet MusicDownload

Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:

Lucia – MIDIDownload

Lyrics

  1. There’s a girl I know, met her long ago
    In the fairest land in all the south
    She had hair of jet, eyes you’d not forget
    Pearly teeth and dimpled, smiling mouth
    When at Venice there, met this maiden fair
    And in true Italian style I made
    Courtship that was sweet, and when we would meet
    To her I would sing this Serenade

Refrain
Oh, Lucia, for you I pine
Come to me, ah, do not decline
For I want to hear you sing so prettily
As you sang in sunny Italy
Ah, say you will be mine
Oh, Lucia, for you I pine
Come to me, ah, do not decline
For I want to hear you sing so prettily
As you sang in sunny Italy
Ah, say you will be mine

  1. But this maiden fair had a sweetheart there
    Though I didn’t find it out at first
    HE was a brigand bold and from what I’m told
    He must certainly have been the worst
    When he made a threat of a sharp stillett
    Unless I would go, why I obeyed
    Now from distance far I tune my guitar
    When I want to sing this Serenade

Sung here by Laurence Rubenstein: