a 1925 popular song
words by Raymond B. Egan
music by Richard A. Whiting
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- I recall the fields I wandered over
Dressed in a coat of tan
There I found a little four leaf clover
That’s where my luck began
I have always been a rover
Now I want to go
Hunting for a four leaf clover
Thru fields I used to know
Chorus
I want to stray far away
Where the four leaf clovers grow
Where I played in the shade
Of the maples bending low
I want to dream by a stream
Where the four leaf clovers grow
With a book and a hook
And a line the fish all know
I want to spend a day a startin’ down the lane
To school and wend my way
Toward the dear old swimmin’ pool
And end the day a roamin’ through the gloamin’
In the twilight glow
I’ll be about tired out
When the curfew rings
I know then I’ll creep off to sleep
Where the four leaf clovers grow
- I can hear the lazy windmill creekin’
Out in the evening breeze
I can nearly see the moon a peakin’
Down thru the maple trees
Then I find myself a slippin’
Peacefully to sleep
Hardly ere my prayers are ended
I’m wrapped in slumber deep
Sung here by Laurence Rubenstein: