A popular song from 1906
Words by Arthur J. Lamb
Music by Albert Von Tilzer
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by Denese Coulbeck:
Lyrics
- Where the sweet magnolias blossom
At the parting of the ways
Beneath the splendor of a Southern sky
While sweetly sang the mocking bird
Unto the pale moon’s rays
A soldier kissed his Dixie love goodbye
She said, “You’re going forth to fight
As once your father fought
And he returned another’s love to claim
Then let the memory of his love
Be in each tender thought
You’ll find your Dixie sweetheart still the same”
Chorus
Now the moon is fair tonight
On the cotton fields of white
By the Swanee river we roam hand in hand
They are singing “Old Black Joe”
In my dreams of long ago
I wonder if she waits in Dixie land
- Just a group of soldier comrades
Who are speeding on the train
They know their dear old Southern homes are near
And as the train speeds onward
Thro’ the darkness of the night
They tell old stories filled with memories dear
One soldier says, “I long
To hear the mocking bird again”
Another sighs to see the fields of white
But one of them is silent
And he thinks with joy and pain
Does my love wait in Dixieland tonight?
Sung here by Vancha March: