From the 1933 film “Peg O’ My Heart”
words by Gus Kahn
music by Herbert Stothart
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
My father was Irish, my mother was English
But the Irish has the upper hand in me
And speakin’ of Irish people and things
How’d you like an Irish melody
Chorus
There’s a light in you eyes, sweetheart darlin’
And it makes all the world fair and bright
Like the light in the skies, sweetheart darlin’
When the mornin’ steals out of the night
‘Tis lovelight a shinin’ for someone
Sure I’m wond’ring just who it could be, my darlin’
There’s a light in your eyes, sweetheart darlin’
Tell me darlin’ it’s shinin’ for me
Sung here by Laurence Rubenstein: