A popular song from 1858
Words and music by Stephen Collins Foster
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by Benjamin R. Tubb:
Accompaniment mp3 by Werner Tomaschewski:
Lyrics
1. With a heart forsaken I wander
In silence, in grief and alone,
On a form departed I ponder,
For Lula, sweet Lula is gone.
Gone when the roses have faded,
Gone when the meadows are bare
To a land by orange blossoms shaded
Where summer ever lingers on the air.
CHORUS
Lula, Lula, Lula is gone;
With birds her bright smiles
To sunny lands have flown.
When day breaketh gladly
My heart waketh sadly,
For Lula, Lula is gone.
2. Not a voice awakens the mountains,
No gladness returns with the dawn,
Not a smile is mirrored in the fountains,
For Lula, sweet Lula is gone.
Day is bereft of its pleasures,
Night of its beautiful dreams,
While the dirge of well-remembered measures
Is murmured by the ripple on the streams.
3. When I view the chill-blighted bowers
And roam o’er the snow covered plain
How I long for spring’s budding flowers
To welcome her sweet smiles again.
Why does the earth seem forsaken?
Time will this sadness remove;
At her voice the meadows will awaken
To verdure, sweet melody and love.