My Isle of Golden Dreams
Public domain - full karaoke IMMHA-L149
Credit: Gus Kahn / Walter Blaufuss · 1919
Origin: Published 1919, so public domain in the US. Typed sheet, 3/4 time, key of G (capo 2). Sheet note: 'R. Green Spring '96' (Ron Green).
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Isle_of_Golden_Dreams
Lyrics sheet: courtesy of Country Roads Folk Music Camp, Mount Madonna County Park, California (about the camp)
Original scan: from John's songbook (scan to be posted on @IMMHACAL)
Chords as printed on the original song sheet. 3/4 time, key of G, capo 2 (typed sheet, as written).
[Intro: G / D7 / G / /] G C G Out of the mist, lips I have kissed, call tenderly D7 G Out of the west, hands I have pressed, beckon to me C G Over the sea, waiting for me, lonely and blue Bm E7 Bm E7 Bm Am7 D7 Somebody sighs, somebody cries, I love you, I love you G C G Drifting in dreams, drifting it seems, back to the shore D7 G Where hand in hand, over the sand, we'll stroll once more G7 C Heart of my heart, no more we'll part, I hear her say G D7 G But with the dawn, my dream has gone astray [Chorus] C G I hear the voice of my land D7 G A-calling me, it seems C G That fair Hawaiian Island D7 G My isle of golden dreams G C G Somehow I know, sometime I'll go, back o'er the sea D7 G Where all alone, someone I've known, waits patiently G7 C Lips I have kissed, lips I have missed, whisper it seems G D7 G Come for a while, back to your isle of dreams [Chorus (repeat last line)]