This song was written for the 1933 musical film Footlight Parade, accompanied by a huge water ballet performed by chorus girls.
(Verse)
I appreciate the simple things
Cause I'm awfully fond of getting
Love in an actual setting
This is what I call the simple things:
Just a winding stream where I can drift and dream
And now I'm waiting for you
(Chorus)
By a waterfall
I'm calling you
We can share it all
Beneath a ceiling of blue
We'll spend a heavenly day
Here where the whispering waters play
There's a whippoorwill that's calling you
By a waterfall, he's dreaming too
There's a magic melody
Mother Nature sings to me
Beside a waterfall with you
(Instrumental break)
There's a whippoorwill that's calling
By a waterfall, he's dreaming too
There's a magic melody
Mother Nature sings to me
Besides a waterfall with you
By a Waterfall was written by Sammy Fain & Irving Kahal.