The Bright Sunny South

A popular song from 1848
Words by F. M. Prince
Music by A Scherzer

The sheet music:

The Bright Sunny South – Sheet MusicDownload

Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:

The_Bright_Sunny_South – MIDIDownload

Lyrics

  1. Oh, give me a home in the bright sunny South
    Where murmur the breezes of Gondola’s isle
    Where the sweetest of flowers their odors pour forth
    And whispering their love, give heaven a smile
    And whispering their love, give heaven a smile
  2. Where lilies are playing and dahlias recline
    On the snowdrop of heaven so pure and divine
    The wild cactus turns its eyes to the sun
    As the sweetest of flowers has its sweetness begun
  3. Oh land of my birth, how dear are thy plains
    Thy valleys’ pure streams, they mountains in chains
    Thy blue tinted sky with its sunlight at even
    Makes the fairest of earth, reflecting on heaven
  4. When life shall have wasted its beauty away
    Or the sweet bud of youth, be found to decay
    There’s one spot of earth, with heaven as its sky
    In the bright sunny south, there, there let me die