A 1920 popular song.
Words by Grant Clarke and Charles N. Grant.
Music by Walter Donaldson.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- I saw her face ’twas in the market place
In old Bagdad, what cheeks she had
Like a bed, full of red roses
I stood a while until I saw her smile
Then I smiled, too, and so would you
Listen now, this is how the story goes
Chorus
There where the temples stand
In that land over the burning sand
There in a bower rare
Like a flower fair, in the hour of pray’r
She fell in love, and so did I
‘Neath the azure sky
Sweetheart why, why did we say goodbye
But I suppose only Allah knows
That’s how the story goes of my Sahara Rose
- I see a star a=shining from afar
A star of love, from far above
Calling me over the ocean
In all my dreams I see her so it seems
Tho’ we’re apart, down in my heart
On a throne there’s my own Sahara Rose