From the film “The Hit Parade of 1941”.
Words by Walter Bullock.
Music by Jule Styne.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
Birds come home to rest in the evening
For they know what is best in the evening
Just as I do, when I come home to you
Chorus
We shall meet in the cool of the evening
Side by side when the long day is done
Oh it’s sweet in the cool of the evening after the sun
In the dim, dusty blue of the twilight
With a star all alone in the sky
We shall rest in the cool of the evening
Just you and I
In the shadows together
We’re hand in hand, the world is grand, we know
We’re happy with things we planned
A thousand dreams ago
There’s a song in my heart ev’ry morning
And it sings till the days work is through
For I know in the cool of the evening
I’ll be with you