A 1922 popular song.
Words by Anne Hampton.
Music by Vaughn De Leath.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- Mystic Isles, where all nature smile
It is there, where, someone is waiting the whole day long
O’er and o’er on the golden shore
By the sea, she sings ev’ry ev’ning her sweet plaintive song
Refrain
Nightingale, I am so lonely
Nightingale I love him only
Could he but know, that I long for him so
He would have come long ago
Long since our vows we have plighted
Springtime will see us united
Nightingale do, bring him back here with you
Back to Hawaii and me
- Thru the night, in the white moonlight
As she sings, wings seems to be flying across the sea
And it seems, in a mist of dreams
That he heard her singing and answered her sweet melody
Sung here by Fred Feild: