A celebration of a new amusement park, 1904
words by Andrew B. Sterling
music by Harry Von Tilzer
1904 saw the opening of Dreamland, a Coney Island amusement park. This song was a good advertisement. The sheet music cover calls it a “New York waltz-song craze”. The park was very popular until it burned down in 1911.
The sheet music:
Lyrics
- I know some place to go when a soft moon beams
Sweethearts all love to call it the land of dreams
Just outside of the town not so far away
Go for a ride, with your girl by your side
At the close of day
Chorus
All aboard for Dreamland
Jump on a trolley with Maudie or Mollie
And all aboard for Dreamland, it’s out of sight
That’s the place for sweethearts, ice cream and kisses
Oh, there’s where the bliss is
So all aboard for Dreamland on a summer’s night
- Down in Dreamland, you waltz with your only one
Then you spoon ‘neath the moon when the dance is done
When you kiss her goodnight, with a smiling face
She’ll whisper low, “Meet me next Sunday, Joe
At the same old place”
Sung here by Fred Feild: