A popular song from 1919
Words by James Stanley Royce
Music by Charles L. Johnson
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by Denese Coulbeck:
Lyrics
Sweet and low, sweet and low
Soft evening breeze
Comes from the happy land of memory
Bringing back again to me
The hours of fairyland rhymes
Wonderful times at close of day
While thru the trees
You sang your ever haunting melody
Bring back those tender strains
Of mothers soothing lullaby
Moon swinging low, stars all aglow
Bring the dancing shadows
From the phantom long ago
When mother sang sweet and low
Bye-lo-bye now close your eye
Sandman’s coming by, so sly
Dream sweet dreams ’til the morning dawn
Sleep ’til the sandman has gone
(to slumberland)
Bring back those tender strains
Of mothers dreamy lullaby
Moon swinging low, stars all aglow
Leave with me those mem’ries
Of that golden long ago
When mother sang sweet and low
Sung by Laurence Rubenstein: