A 1920 popular song.
Words by Harold G. Frost.
Music by Paul Biese and F. Henri Klickmann.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by Jonathan Parks:
Lyrics
- Over the burning sand
Starlight is guiding my caravan
Romance and mystery
Oriental breezes sing this melody
Chorus
Wait for me in Allah’s Land
Where the lonely Temples stand
Far across the burning sand
Desertana Mine
Back to where our love began
I will bring my caravan
Still my heart is truer than
Desert stars that shine
Desertana, wait for me
Where the Nile flows dreamily
While the shadows bring to thee
Dreams of love divine
Desert land will bloom with flow’rs
We’ll forget the longing hours
Paradise will soon be ours
Desertana Mine
- Dream on, my Desert Rose
Whisper your love to each breeze that blows
Dream of a wedding day
In that fair Oasis where the palm trees sway
Chorus
Wait for me in Allah’s Land
Where the lonely Temples stand
Far across the burning sand
Desertana Mine
Back to where our love began
I will bring my caravan
Still my heart is truer than
Desert stars that shine
Desertana, wait for me
Where the Nile flows dreamily
While the shadows bring to thee
Dreams of love divine
Desert land will bloom with flow’rs
We’ll forget the longing hours
Paradise will soon be ours
Desertana Mine
Can’t you hear me call
While the shadows fall?
You’re my all in all
Desertana Mine