A popular song from 1922
Words by Gus Kahn
Music by Isham Jones
The sheet music:
Lyrics
- Lonely through the long weary day
Lonely in the gloaming I stay
And in fancy I am down where
Someone’s waiting for me
Down there where I long to be roaming
Noonlight tells me love’s dream is o’er
Moonlight finds me wandering once more
Chorus
Where the moon swings low
On the Alamo
In a garden fair where roses grow
In the tender light of the summer night
I can see her wander to and fro
For she said, “I’ll wait by the garden gate”
On the night I said, “I love you so”
And in all my dreams it seems I go
Where the moon swings low
On the Alamo
- Sometimes I have tried to forget
Sometimes there is only regret
That forever I am yearning
For the touch of her hand
Burning for the kisses she promised
Then dear comes a dream of your smile
Then dear all the waiting’s worth while