a 1925 popular song
words by Sam M. Lewis and Joe Young
music by Harry Akst
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- Carolina gave me Dinah
I’m the proudest one beneath the Dixie sun
News is spreadin’ ’bout a weddin’
I hear church bells ringin’
Here’s the song my heart keeps singin’
Chorus
“Dinah, is there anyone finer in the state of Carolina
If there is and you know ‘er, show ‘er to me
Dinah, with her Dixie eyes blazin’
How I love to sit and gaze into the eyes of Dinah Lee
Ev’ry night why do I shake with fright
Because my Dinah might change her mind about me
Dinah, if she wandered to China
I would hop an ocean liner
Just to be with Dinah Lee
- Some designer modeled Dinah
He must be the One who made the golden sun
Heaven bless her, she said “Yes, Sir”
All day long I’m prayin’
Even in my dreams I’m sayin’
Sung here by Fred Feild: