A popular song from 1848
Words by F. M. Prince
Music by A Scherzer
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- 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 - 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 - 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 - 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
Sung here by Vancha March: