From the film “Melodramma”, 1934
Original song by C. A. Bixio and B. Cherubini
English lyrics and musical adaptation by Jimmy Kennedy
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
There’s a melody that plays upon my heart strings
When the splendor of the setting sun is fading
From the hill I hear a lover serenading
And tonight it comes a-stealing once again
Just a melody that comes but to remind me
That one night I sang a love song all in vain
Chorus:
Serenade in the night
‘Neath a fair lady’s window
Just the same serenade
That I tenderly played
On a night long ago
There were stars in the sky
And I sang ‘neath the roses
But she gave not a sign
That she’d ever be mine
And my love story closes.
Oh! why must the south wind be bringing it?
Oh! why must my heart keep on singing it?
Serenade in the night
From the past comes to haunt me
When I hear that refrain
Oh! my heart aches again
For the lost love of mine
Sung by Laurence Rubenstein: