A popular song from 1917.
Words by Fleta Jan Brown.
Music by Herbert Spencer.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- Down among the Pyramids of Egyptland
There a Yankee met a dark-eyed maiden
While they talk’d of moonlight and the Nile so grand
He would kiss her lips and say
This is why I stay
Refrain
For there’s Egypt in your dreamy eyes
A bit of Cairo in your style
The shades of night are in your hair
While fragrant incense seems to fill the air
All the Orient is in your smile
Mysterious as River Nile
And you stole my heart
With your cunning art
And the Egypt in your dreamy eyes
- On a dromedary they would honeymoon
Thro’ the great Sahara they would wander
In a green oasis they would camp at noon
And with myst’ries ev’rywhere
He would whisper there
Sung here by Vancha March: