a 1922 popular song
Words and music by Madame Fritch
The sheet music:
Accompaniment:
Lyrics
- I feel the West a-calling
A-calling thee and me
Oh, let us hasten, hasten
Toward the Western sea
Once more in California
Where the golden poppies blow
Where oranges and lemons
Perfume the mountain snow
Chorus
All hail dear California
Queen of a royal race
Victoriously the palm trees
Proclaim thy native grace
Imperial California
Was e’er a state so great
Cities of Saint and Angels
And of the Golden Gate
- We’ll stroll along the sea shore
As we did when love was new
The waves the only confident
Of yearning warm and true
Oh! all a-blaze of glory
Is the far-famed Golden Gate
Enraptured we behold her
And question not her fate
Sung here by Fred Feild: