Dream On (An Indian Lullaby)

Song

"Dream On"

Sheet music cover, 1922

Song
Published| 1922
Composer(s)| Victor Herbert
Lyricist(s)| B.G. DeSylva

"Dream On (An Indian Lullaby)" is a popular song written by B.G. DeSylva with music composed by Victor Herbert. The song is a Cherokee mother's lullaby to her child. The lyrics as first written are:[1]

> 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 dawn.

>   * Indian for "bye-lo" pronounced Hey-ah.

The first commercial recording of "Dream On" was by Mario Chamlee (Brunswick 10158) in 1925.

## References

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1. ^ DeSylva, "Dream On" (sheet music).

## Bibliography

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* DeSylva, B.G. (w.); Herbert, Victor (m.). "Dream On" (An Indian Lullaby), (Sheet music). New York: Harms (1922).
* Kaye, Joseph. Victor Herbert: The Biography of America's Greatest Composer of Romantic Music. Wrangell-Rokassowsky Press (2007).

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