O! Sydney I Love You 1927

James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 25 Aug 2004

Come boys and girls,
O, come young and old
let us all be blithe and gay.
Come everyone happiness unfold,
laughter's in the air today
let us sing a song of Sydney Town
fairest city of our land.
Every other thing with music drown
let it ring on every hand.

O! Sydney, I love you.
O! Sydney I do
I love the smiling sky above you
and the sea of sapphire blue;
and wherever I may look
there's a cranny or a nook
where your storied romance grew;
I love every winding bay
they delight me every way,
but most of all I love just you.

O! Sydney, I love you.
O! Sydney I do
I love the smiling sky above you
and the sea of sapphire blue;
and wherever I may look
there's a cranny or a nook
where your storied romance grew;
I love every winding bay
they delight me every way,
but most of all I love just you.

Why did Captain Cook pass right by our shore
why did he go sailing on?
He could not have known
what there lay in store
for the eye to gaze upon.
He could not have seen the sunbeams play
on each pretty hill and dale,
or the fascinating moonlight ray
pouring silver in its trail.

O! Sydney, I love you.
O! Sydney I do
I love the smiling sky above you
and the sea of sapphire blue;
and wherever I may look
there's a cranny or a nook
where your storied romance grew;
I love every winding bay
they delight me every way,
but most of all I love just you.

O! Sydney, I love you.
O! Sydney I do
I love the smiling sky above you
and the sea of sapphire blue;
and wherever I may look
there's a cranny or a nook
where your storied romance grew;
I love every winding bay
they delight me every way,
but most of all I love just you.

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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O! Sydney I Love You 1927
Words & Music by S.A.E.McLeod
© 1927 Winner Sun's (newspaper) Song Competetion
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sequence and karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Wednesday 25 August 2004 at 17.08
in association with Doug Grierson
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courtesy of The National Library of Australia
nla.mus-an7579855-s2-v
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