Where the Long White Waterfall (Love Song)

"Where the Long White Waterfall (Love Song)" is the first song of Cadman's Idyls of the South Sea, op. 55 song cycle, with text by Nelle Richmond Eberhart.

Date: 1913Composer: Charles Wakefield CadmanText: Nelle Richmond EberhartSong Collection: Idyls of the South Sea

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Where the Long White Waterfall (Love Song)
by Nelle Richmond Eberhart

Where the long white waterfall
Lone and lovely slips,
There is no hibiscus flow’r
Redder than her lips.

Like a night without a moon,
Her dark tresses are.
Hokoolélé, Shooting Star,
Hokoolélé.

On this coral beach no palm
Stands more straight and fair,
Sweeter she than jasmin wreath
On her bosom bare.

Like the love notes of a harp,
Comes her song afar.
Hokoolélé, Shooting Star,
Hokoolélé.

Hokoolélé! Hokoolélé!

Sheet Music

Idyls of the South Sea, Op. 55 (High Key)

Composer(s): Charles Wakefield Cadman

Song(s): 1. Where the Long White Waterfall (Love Song)
. The Great Wind Shakes the Breadfruit Leaf (Ghost Song)
3. The Rainbow Waters Whisper (Canoe Song)
4. Withered is the Green Palm (Death Song)

Voice Type: High

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Idyls of the South Sea, Op. 55 (Medium Key)

Composer(s): Charles Wakefield Cadman

Song(s): 1. Where the Long White Waterfall (Love Song)
. The Great Wind Shakes the Breadfruit Leaf (Ghost Song)
3. The Rainbow Waters Whisper (Canoe Song)
4. Withered is the Green Palm (Death Song)

Voice Type: Medium

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