(Sweet Paradise)
A Hawaiian love song from 1925
Words by Haven Gillespie
Music by Egbert Van Alstyne, Erwin R. Schmidt and Loyal Curtis
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- Down by the southern sea
There at Waikiki
Someone waits for me
Beneath the dreamy summer moon
Hearts are all in tune
Lovers softly croon
Their plaintive melodies of love
Chorus
Drifting and dreaming, while shadows fall
Softly at twilight I hear you call
Love’s old sweet story, told with your eyes
Drifting and dreaming, sweet paradise
- Far, far away in dreams
Where the moonlight gleams
There I stray it seems
And while my fancies come and go
One that I love so
Whispers sweet and low
Come back to dreamy paradise
Sung here by Laurence Rubenstein: