From “Ziegfeld Follies of 1916”
Words by Gene Buck
Music by Jerome Kern
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
In old Egypt where the pale moon glows
And the sapphire Nile so gently flows
And the balmy breeze through the palm tree blows
That is Paradise to me
In the shade of the pyramids so grand
In that olden, golden Pharaoh Land
It was there I lost my heart and hand
And asked her My Queen to be
Refrain
Oh, my lady of the Nile
Won’t you linger here awhile
I have loved you so in history
You have solved my heart’s own mystery
Through the veil of years it seems
You have haunted all my dreams
A world of love I’d return to you
I’ve yearned for you, I’ve burned for you
Your Anthony I want to be
My Lady of the Nile