a 1922 popular song words by B.G. De Sylva music by Victor Herbert
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When the red Indian sun bids his goodbye
Mother sees Cherokee’s sleeptime’s nigh
When the fast fading day leaves a gray sky
Twilight comes, then she hums this lullaby
Dream on, mother is holding you, ah yah, ah yah
Dream on, night is enfolding you, ah yah, ah yah
Some fair silver canoe carries you through into Dreamland
Over a blue lagoon, where the crickets croon, ah yah, ah yah
Dream on, mother is holding you, ah yah, ah yah
Dream on, night is enfolding you, ah yah, ah yah
New moon slender and frail, quickly will pale and be gone
And you’ll come back to me then in the rose of the dawn
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