Song and Chorus
"The Golden Grain Was Waving" (1875)
To Mabel Ross
by
James M. Sayles
Author of
"When the Roses Bloom"

New York: William A. Pond & Co., 543 Broadway [&] 30 Union Square
Milwaukee: H. N. Hempsted
San Francisco: M. Gray
Boston: Carl Prufer
Albany: Cluett & Son
Savanna: Ludden & Bates
Pittsburgh: H. Kiberg & Bro.
Lithographer: R. Teller, 63 Church St., N. York
Plate Number: 8994

[Source:
CALL NUMBER
M2.3.U6A44
PART OF
American 19th-century sheet music. Copyright deposits, 1870-1885
REPOSITORY
Library of Congress. Music Division.
DIGITAL ID
sm1875 11534 urn:hdl:loc.music/sm1875.11534
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/sm1875.11534]

1. The golden grain was waving in the gentle harvest breeze.
The birds were singing sweetly, in their bow’rs amid the trees,
Fair nature, deck’d in brightest hues, o’er wood and meadow green,
Seem’d to reign in regal splendor, a charming fairy queen.

CHORUS [sung after each VERSE]
The golden grain was waving,
As with nature, lovely maid,
Hand in hand I went a straying
Thru’ field and forest glade.

2. The golden grain, her tresses, were dipped in morning dew,
While ’neath her drooping eyelids, shone the heavens’ transcendent blue.
Her form, the streamlet’s graceful curve; her step, the fawn’s light tread;
Her kiss, the flowers’ rich perfume that all around was shed.

3. Who takes fair nature for his love, a maiden coy shall find,
Her tears may fall, her love grow cold, but only for a time;
For, like a dainty lassie when the sun’s bright rays are seen,
She will smile in radiant beauty, his loved and chosen queen.