From the operetta “The Desert Song”, 1926
Words by Otto Harbach and Oscar Hammerstein II
Music by Sigmund Romberg
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
Lonely as a desert breeze
I may wander where I please
Yet I keep on longing
Just to rest a while
Where a sweethearts tender eyes
Takes the place of sand and skies
All the world forgotten
In one woman’s smile
Refrain
One alone to be my own
I alone to know her caresses
One to be eternally
The one my worshipping soul possesses
At her call I’d give my all
All my life and all my love enduring
This would be a magic world to me
If she were mine alone
Sung here by Laurence Rubenstein: