City Of Dreams 1918 'Oh, My Dear!'

Dr. Pitt-Payne in London UK - 12 Mar 2003

Down in the valley where sunbeams grow
and stars go to rest when they're old,
stands, ever covered in sunset glow
a wonderful city of gold.
Often I hoped I should see some day
that city that others have known;
it's easy to find if you know the way.
But no one can find it alone.

Dear golden city!
Life is happy and serene there
where lovers go
when its spell they can't resist.
And how I pity
all the folks who've never been there!
They'll never know
all the wonders they have missed.
I'm going to stray there:
I've some one now to show the way there.
We'll go and stay there
it's much more simple than it seems.
No one will find us
for we'll leave the world behind us
in our dear city,
our city of dreams.

Dear golden city!
Life is happy and serene there
where lovers go
when its spell they can't resist.
And how I pity
all the folks who've never been there!
They'll never know
all the wonders they have missed.
I'm going to stray there:
I've some one now to show the way there.
We'll go and stay there
it's much more simple than it seems.
No one will find us
for we'll leave the world behind us
in our dear city,
our city of dreams.

Many are going there ev'ry day
and though some have sought it in vain,
no one who ever has found the way
can ever forget it again.
Close to a river whose wavelets creep
and splash on the silvery sand,
it's not very far from
the Hills of Sleep,
and they are in Fairy Land.

Dear golden city!
Life is happy and serene there
where lovers go
when its spell they can't resist.
And how I pity
all the folks who've never been there!
They'll never know
all the wonders they have missed.
I'm going to stray there:
I've some one now to show the way there.
We'll go and stay there
it's much more simple than it seems.
No one will find us
for we'll leave the world behind us
in our dear city,
our city of dreams.

Dear golden city!
Life is happy and serene there
where lovers go
when its spell they can't resist.
And how I pity
all the folks who've never been there!
They'll never know
all the wonders they have missed.
I'm going to stray there:
I've some one now to show the way there.
We'll go and stay there
it's much more simple than it seems.
No one will find us
for we'll leave the world behind us
in our dear city,
our city of dreams.

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City Of Dreams 1918
Music by Louis A. Hirsch
Lyrics by Sir Pelham G. Wodehouse
copyright MCMXVIII by T.B.Harms and Francis Day and Hunter N.Y.
sequence and karaoke by Dr. Pitt-Payne in London UK
on Wednesday 12 March 2003 at 00.08
in association with Doug Grierson
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from "Oh, My Dear!" 1918
Book and lyrics by Guy Bolton
and P. G. Wodehouse
Music by Louis A. Hirsch
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