THIS IS HEAVEN

(Jack Yellen, Harry Akst)


As recorded by:
Studio Band Poss. Dir. Arthur Rosebery
V. Bob Fisher
Recorded in September 1929 

Also recorded by:
Gus Arnheim & His Orchestra, V. Bing Crosby
Jack Payne’s BBC Dance Orchestra, V. Jack Payne



I have often wondered whether it is true
That there’s a Heaven people talk about
Happily I blundered into meeting you
That there’s a Heaven I no longer doubt

To have and hold you near
To know you love me dear
Sweetheart, this is Heaven
Though humble it may be
As long as you’re with me
Sweetheart, this is Heaven

It’s not in yonder skies
Happiness reposes
But in your love lit eyes
Beaming through those red, red roses

And when your lips and mine
Meet in a kiss divine
It is my Heaven dear.

(Short Musical Break)

To have and hold you near
To know you love me dear
Sweetheart, this is Heaven
Though humble it may be
As long as you’re with me
Sweetheart, this is Heaven

It’s not in yonder skies
Happiness reposes
But in your love lit eyes
Beaming through those red, red roses

And when your lips and mine
Meet in a kiss divine
It is my Heaven dear.




(Transcribed from John Wright’s 78 RPM 
Record Collection by Bill Huntley - September 2013)