Starlight-Land

A popular song from 1899
Words by J. Anthony McDonald
Music by William M. Hutchison

The sheet music:

Starlight-Land – Sheet MusicDownload

Accompaniment by Denese Coulbeck:

Starlight_Land – MIDIDownload

Lyrics

  1. Across the dusk of evening gray
    The dream ships float at close of day
    And bear us forth across the deep
    To Starlight-Land, the land of sleep
    And there, in dreams by the silver sand
    We feel the clasp of a vanished hand
    And o’er the tide the low winds sigh
    As once they did, in days gone by
    And o’er the tide the low winds sigh
    As once they did in days gone by

Refrain
Oh Starlight-Land, Oh Starlight-Land
When shall we see your silver strand?
The dreaming past, the waiting o’er
Our hearts at rest, for evermore
Oh Starlight-Land, Oh Starlight-Land
When shall we see your silver strand?
The dreaming past, the waiting o’er
Our hearts at rest, for evermore

  1. Across the tide of silent night
    We drift in dreams to reach the light
    To meet again, on that far shore
    The hearts we loved in days of yore
    And sweeter far than the radiant skies
    The tender light of our loved ones’ eyes
    ‘Till o’er the deep the dawn-tide gleams
    To bring us back from the land of dreams
    ‘Till o’er the deep the dawn-tide gleams
    To bring us back from the land of dreams

Refrain
Oh Starlight-Land, Oh Starlight-Land
When shall we see your silver strand?
The dreaming past, the waiting o’er
Our hearts at rest, for evermore
Our hearts at rest, for evermore
Our hearts at rest, for evermore

Sung here by Laurence Rubenstein: