You’re my heart’s desire; I love you.
A 1905 popular song
Words and music by Harry Armstrong.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- By the old mill stream I’m dreaming, Nellie Dean
Dreaming of your bright eyes gleaming, Nellie Dean
As they used to fondly glow
When we sat there long ago
List’ning to the waters flow, Nellie Dean
I can hear the robins singing, Nellie Dean
Sweetest recollections bringing, Nellie Dean
And they seem to sing of you
With your tender eyes of blue
For I know they miss you, too, Nellie Dean
Chorus
There’s an old mill by the stream, Nellie Dean
Where we used to sit and dream, Nellie Dean
And the waters as they flow
Seem to murmur weet and low
You’re my heart’s desire
I love you, Nellie Dean
- I recall the day we parted, Nellie Dean
How you trembled broken hearted, Nellie Dean
And you pinned a rose of red
On my coat of blue and said
That a soldier boy you’d wed, Nellie Dean
All the world seems sad and lonely, Nellie Dean
For I love you and you only, Nellie Dean
And I wonder if on high
You still love me, if you sigh
For the happy days gone by, Nellie Dean