An Australian ballad from 1919.
Words by E. V. Hudson.
Music by Albert Tams.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- Springtime has come with dewy morn
With nature’s beauty and early dawn
Shedding its light and mellow ray
Until the dusk and close of day
Memories sweet do now return
And for my dear one’s face I yearn
Tho’ far apart I’ll be forever true
Till I return to home and you
Refrain
Where the wattle blossoms grow
The woodland breezes whisper low
Of a love that never changes
Of a love I have for you
Thro’ the fields of waving corn
To breathe the scent of dewy morn
Sweetheart, with you to wander
Where the wattle blossoms grow
- Now comes a message o’er the sea
It is Australia that calls to me
Calling me back to love so true
My heart replies, I come to you
Wait close beside the fairy dell
Where loves’s sweet tale I long to tell
To be with you as in the days of yore
Will I return to Austral’s shore