(I’m a Dreamer)
From the film “Sunny Side Up”, 1929
Words and music by B. G. De Sylva, Lew Brown and Ray Henderson
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- Aren’t we all in search of happiness?
To each one it means a different thing
To some it’s wealth, to some it’s health
To some it’s only what love can bring
Please don’t blame me if I’m human, too
I’m the same as you, and you, and you
Chorus
I’m a dreamer, aren’t we all?
Just a dreamer, aren’t we all?
In my dreams each night, it seems
My sweetheart comes to call
He’s so charming, strong and tall
It’s alarming, how I fall
He’s ideal! but then he isn’t real
And I’m a fool
But aren’t we all?
- Aren’t we all pretending constantly
That we are the ones we hope to be?
Our fortunes hide right there inside
And we imagine reality
Oftentimes I leave real things behind
And hide within a corner of my mind