Sombrero Land

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

  1. 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

  1. 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: