From the musical “Orange Blossoms”, 1922.
Words by B. G. De Sylva.
Music by Victor Herbert.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment track:
Lyrics
- This house is roomy and ought to do me
Yet it seems gloomy to me, where e’er I roam
It’s most alarming that it should be so charming
And yet never seem like “home”
Refrain
It’s only a lonely nest
I’m lonely and uncaressed
There’s no one to bring me cheer
When days are drear
To kiss me and call me “dear”
But someday I’ll cease to pine
Oh, someday my eyes will shine
When someone has come and blessed
This lonely nest of mine
- If there could come one, a little someone
Who smiled demurely, surely I would be his
This is my prayer for if I had him to care for
This would not be what it is
Sung here by Fred Feild: