A popular song from 1911
Words and music by E. Ray Goetz, Irving Berlin, and Ted Snyder
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- Starlight a-twinkling
Mandolin tinkling sweet serenade
‘Mid convent bells
Of love sweetly tells a Mexican maid
Longing to go to
Longing to know true love’s paradise
As he sings to eyes
That dim fairest golden skies
Chorus
Sombrero Land
Fair tropic strand
Beside the Rio Grand
With love my heart command
Eyes understand
What hearts demand
Come, we’ll delight some, quite some,
Bright Sombrero Land
- Silently hiding
Silently sliding down to his arms,
Two lips caress
With kisses impress her heart in their charms
Thru gardens groping
They go eloping, silently flee
As once more to her
He tenderly hums his plea
Sung here by Laurence Rubenstein: