A popular song from 1925
Words and music by Irving Berlin
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- There’s a sunny land calling to me
Seeming to say, “Don’t you delay”
You would understand why I’m gloomy
Why I’m so blue, if you but knew
Chorus
I long to be returning
Back to the Venetian Isles
A spark of love is burning
Down in the Venetian Isles
I can see a setting sun across the bay
And a little lonely one, who seems to say
“Come back, my heart is yearning”
Down in the Venetian Isles
- Soon I’m “gonna” be like the daisy
Gazing up high, up at the sky
Can’t you picture me being lazy
Under a palm, peaceful and calm
Sung here by Laurence Rubenstein: