A 1927 popular song
words and music by Gus Kahn, Nathansen-Borgel and Anton Dvorak
The chorus is the theme from the “The New World Symphony”, which was originally based on a Negro spiritual that Dvorak heard during his time in the USA.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by Fred Feild:
Lyrics
- Sunrise called me away from you
Noontide found me yearning
Twilight whispered you missed me too
Night finds me returning
All my dreams are so bright of you
Seems I must have a sight of you
And so I’m
Refrain
Sailin’ On, Sailin’ On
O’er a sea of blue
Silver spray seems to say
Soon I’ll be with you
Birds on high, homeward fly
And they’re singing, too
Like my heart, when I start
Sailin’ home to you
- There’s a call in the morning star
When I see it gleaming
Tho’ it bid me to wander far
Night star finds me dreaming
Dreaming, dear, of a lonely one
Who is my one and only one
And so I’m
Sung here by Laurence Rubenstein: