"Moonlit Waters" From 1927.

"Moonlit Waters" from 1927.

Songs from Rio Rita- Sweetheart and the River Song

Sweetheart:

Sweetheart,

I have found you sweetheart,

And around you sweetheart,

I weave my dreams.

Dearest,

To my heart your dearest,

In my thoughts your nearest,

Through the silvr'y streams,

Of our dear Rio:

Calling,

I can hear you calling,

Like the water's falling,

I hear your song.

Each wave caressing,

Finds my heart confessing,

I will love you,

Love you sweetheart,

All life long.

The River Song:

Love by the river of my dreams,

I've built a castle there,

A castle in the air,

Waiting,

For who knows who?

I've reached him on silvr'y streams,

These dreams,

While song birds up above,

Told me in songs of love,

Someday,

 He'll come for you.

And then beneath the palms,

We met and we knew.

A dream with all it's charms, came true.

All life began there.

Oh happy river of my dreams,

Go ripple on so free.

Oh echo this for me,

Sweetheart,

I love you!

Alice White y'all.

This footage is said to be from the 1929 screen test that earned Maurice Chevalier a Hollywood contract. Although ‘Innocents of Paris’, the film it eventually appeared in, is not often seen today, the song ‘Louise’ became one of Chevalier’s signature tunes, and is still a popular jazz standard to this day.

It Seems to Be Spring from Let's Go Native (1930). That movie survives.

I'll never let you get away from me dear,

Oh no,

I'll keep you close by my side.

I'll never try to get away from you dear,

Oh no,

I'll manage to go,

whenever you go.

Chorus:

If somebody should steal you away,

I'll find you wherever you are,

If you're gone for a year or a day,

I'll find you wherever you are.

I'll go over each highway,

No place will be to part,

And you'll help me find my way,

'Cause You'll be my guiding star.

It won't matter where you chance to stray,

I'll find you wherever you are.