From Ziegfeld Follies of 1920.
Words and music by Irving Berlin.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by Felix Chaplin:
Lyrics
When the shadows fall
And the crickets call
I can hear the voice of dreamland
Calling to me from afar
Where my little dream-girls are
When the lights are low
Silently I go
To the girls I know in dreamland
Happiness awaits me in the land of dreams
For the girls I love are there
Chorus
I’d love to meet
The girls of my dreams
They’re all so sweet
The girls of my dreams
When I need sympathy
They cheer and comfort me
And I call my little girls
My string of pearls
My precious rosary
When day draws near
The girls of my dreams
All disappear to heaven it seems
In the morning they are gone
But they’re mine ’till break of dawn
And I love every one of
The girls of my dreams
Sung here by Felix Chaplin.
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