S.O.D. "Beautiful Dreamer" by Stephen Foster

11/17/2015     Beautiful is right!!  All I really need to do is copy the lyrics for you, and now that you know that, go check them out.  Foster wrote songs involving dead women quite often.  It seems that no one is sure if the woman in this song is dead or dreaming.  The song also may or may not be the last one he wrote before his death as there are right around 2 dozen of his tunes that could be his last.  1962 is possibly when the tune was written.

     Just short of 20 versions of the song exists by various artists.  Seventeen films feature the song and it is heard in nearly 30 TV programs.

     Foster wrote more then 200 songs and is known as "The Father of American Music".  This song was published after his death.  He is also America's very first professional songwriter.