A popular song from 1914.
Words by Marvin Lee.
Music by Bert Peters.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- I am thinking tonight of a face fair to see
Of a colleen who loves me I know
Tho’ she’s far far away she is near me today
Ev’ry breeze seems to sigh soft and low
Refrain
When the moon shines in Ireland
I’ll be with you once more
And we’ll love as we loved
My sweet colleen asthore
You’re the lass that I love
You’re the one I adore
When the moon shines in Ireland
I’ll be with you once more
- Erin boasts of its colleens the fairest on earth
Who can love with a love that is true
But there’s none in that wonderful land of my birth
That’s comparing my colleen with you
Sung here by Vancha March: