(A Voice From Mummyland) A popular song from 1921. Words and music by Johnny Black.
Sheet Music
Accompaniment
Lyrics
I am on my way
Back again to Madagascar Bay
I’ll be feeling gay
When I hear the rolling billows sway
I can see you there
Like an Oriental Venus fair
And I wouldn’t care
If tomorrow would find me there
For I’m like the ocean
Just like the ocean blue
Filled with devotion, and with emotion, too
Chorus
Ilo, I am thinking of the day
Ilo, down on Madagascar Bay
You looked to me like Neptune’s daughter
Standing alone there by the water
Your eyes appealed so, they made me feel so
Sentimental, Oriental
Ilo, tho’ you’re many miles away
I know you are with me all the way
Ilo, I’ll be with you in a while, oh!
For I want to tell you
Ilo, I love you
Performance
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