Dreams, Just Dreams

A popular song from 1910
Words and music by Irving Berlin and Ted Snyder


The sheet music:


Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:


Lyrics

  1. The sunbeams have taken their flight
    The day slowly turned into night
    All nature’s at rest
    The birds in their nest
    Sleep on ‘neath the moon’s silv’ry light
    The shadows of eve ease my heart
    For now that we’ve drifted apart
    I find joys anew while dreaming of you
    Dreams that can ne’er come true

Chorus
Dreams, just dreams
My beautiful golden dreams
It seems my dreams
Are missives of sweet consolation
Each dream I dream
Turns gloom to a bright sunbeam
Since the love that I gave
Found a grave, all I crave
Is dreams, just dreams

  1. I wake with the morning my dear
    The sun up above shining clear
    The flowers seem gay to welcome the day
    A day that will seem like a year
    My goal is a land so it seems
    Where night never turns to sunbeams
    The world I would give to go there and live
    Live with my golden dreams

Sung here by Laurence Rubenstein: