A sweet love reverie in dialect, 1902
words by Robert B. Smith
music by John Stromberg
The sheet music:
Accompaniment:
Lyrics
- When from out de shades ob night
Come de stars a shinin’ bright
I spy de one I do love
I recognize ma true love
Amid de tiny orbs ob light
Search de sky from East to West
She’s de brightest an’ de best
But she’s so far above me
I knows she cannot love me
Still I loves her an’ more dan all de rest
Chorus
Ma evenin’ star I wonder who you are
Set up so high like a diamond in de sky
No matter what I do, I can’t go up to you
So come down from dar, ma evenin’ star
Come down! Come down!
Come down from dar, ma evenin’ star
- Love, I think, has made me mad
Cause when nights in clouds are clad
I want her more dan ever
Want her to leave me neber
An’ all aroun’ is sorrowful an’ sad
Den when comes de day’s bright light
An’ ma star fades from ma sight
Ma love is unabatin’
I grow impatient waitin’
To see again ma love, ma light, dat night
Sung here by Fred Feild: