A popular song from 1920
Words by Richard Coburn
Music by Vincent Rose
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- Somewhere the nightingale
Is singing from above
He promised that he’d be
My messenger of love
And I am yearning for his returning
It seems that’s all I’m thinking of
Chorus
Nightingale
When you are singing tenderly
Oh tell her nightingale
That it’s a lover’s melody
Just so whenever you are singing
She’ll know the message you are bringing
Nightingale
Bring back my love to me
- The nightingale knows why
I’m feeling sad and blue
Somehow I know that he
Is feeling lonesome too
That’s why he’s heeding my tender pleading
And sings to her the whole night thru