A popular song from 1897.
words by James Thornton
music by Bonnie Thornton
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- By the banks of a silvery stream
Sat a boy and his sweetheart love making
‘Twas a picture you’d see in a dream
Or a vision of fairyland’s shore
In wonder they gazed at the moon
And the stars on that soft night in June
Said the boy to his sweetheart so true
“There’s a little star shining for you!”
Chorus
“There’s a little star shining for you, love
Way up in the heavens so blue, love
And when you’re asleep
It will twinkle and peep
From above like your own eyes of blue
It will guide you away from all harm, love
O’er your life it will cast a sweet charm, love
And you ‘ can’t go astray
By night or by day
While that little star’s shining for you!”
- Now the boy and his sweetheart are wed
Still the star keeps on shining more brightly
And there on it’s soft downy bed
Sleeps a baby with mother’s blue eyes
Like an angel just loaned to the earth
How the star shone the night of its birth
Love and joy to their home it did bring
Now the mother to baby does sing
Sung here by Fred Feild: