With Downcast Eye

From the musical “Babes in Toyland”, 1903.
Words by Glen MacDonough.
Music by Victor Herbert.

The sheet music:

With-Downcast-Eye – SHEET MUSICDownload

Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:

With_Downcast_Eye – MIDIDownload

Lyrics

  1. Where’er a sail may find a breeze
    To ev’ry land that fronts the seas
    I’ll go, my lads, I’ll go
    Till I have sought through ev’ry port
    That ships or sailors hap to know
    I’ll go, my lads, I’ll go
    And where they understand my speech
    I’ll stop each one and ask of each
    If my true love he’s seen
    For if my true love he has met
    It’s certain he will not forget
    The girl I mean, the girl I mean

Refrain
With downcast eye, she walks like this
She is such a gentle little miss
Like a lily bending when the breezes play
Like a willow swaying in the wind of May
That is how my sweetheart goes upon her way
Tell me have you seen her? Tell me, pray
With downcast eye, she walks like this
She is such a gentle little miss
That is how my sweetheart
Goes upon her way
Tell me have you seen her? Tell me, pray

  1. I’ll search the wide, wide world around
    Where’er a city may be found
    I’ll go, my lads, I’ll go
    And from my quest I’ll take no rest
    Though long the years may grow
    I’ll go, my lads, I’ll go
    On country road and city street
    I’ll ask of ev’ry one I meet
    If they have chanced to see
    A tiny maid of modest mien
    As dainty as a fairy Queen
    For that is she, for that is she

Sung here by Vancha March: