Sam Cooke Jeanie With the Light Brown Hair song lyrics

I dream of Jeanie with the light brown hair

Borne like a vapor, on the summer's air

I see her tripping where the bright streams play

Happy as the daisies that dance on her way

Many were the wild notes her merry voice would pour

Many were the blithe birds that warbled them o'er

I dream of Jeanie with the light brown hair

Floating, like a vapor on the soft summer air

I long for Jeanie with the day dawn smile

Radiant in gladness, warm winning guile

I hear her melodies, like joys gone by

Sighing round my heart o'er the fond hopes that die

Sighing like the night wind and sobbing like the rain

Wailing for the lost one that comes not again

I long for Jeanie and my heart bows low

Nevermore to find her where the bright waters flow