A popular song from the year 1927.
Words by Bud Green.
Music by Harry Warren.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- Ever since I was a little kid so high
Heaven seemed so far away up in the sky
Little did I think that it was here on earth
In the very land that gave me birth
Chorus
Oh! the sun shines bright on the fields of white
And the birds make music all day
I mean away down South in Heaven
Heaven, where the grass is tall
And your cares are small
As a lane of roses you stray
I mean away down South in Heaven
My Heaven where the fireflies lighten up the skies
When the ev’ning is born
And the whippoorwills from the distant hills
Wake you up ev’ry morn
Where they say “Hello” and they mean “Hello”
And you get that longing to stay
I mean away down South in Heaven
My home
- All the world is sad and dreary where I roam
And my lonely heart is weary far from home
There could never be a place that’s half as nice
As the land I call my Paradise
Sung here by Vancha March: