Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
From the film “Careers,” 1929
Words by Al Bryan
Music by Geo. W. Meyer
Sung by Laurence Rubenstein
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne
Get the sheet music and accompaniment here:
sheetmusicsinger.com/my-sweet-helene
Lyrics
1. Your two arms will always enfold me
Making my life worthwhile
Your two arms forever will hold me
That’s why I wear a smile
REFRAIN
Helene, My sweet Helene
The lovebirds sing your name
And my heart is always singing too
Just a song that is only for you
Helene, My sweet Helene
My sunshine after rain
You’ll always be the same to me
Helene, My sweet Helene
2. What are clouds if you’re always near me
Smiling my cares away?
Rain or shine, you always can cheer me
Making December, May
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From the film “Careers,” 1929
Words by Al Bryan
Music by Geo. W. Meyer
Sung by Laurence Rubenstein
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne
Get the sheet music and accompaniment here:
sheetmusicsinger.com/my-sweet-helene
Lyrics
1. Your two arms will always enfold me
Making my life worthwhile
Your two arms forever will hold me
That’s why I wear a smile
REFRAIN
Helene, My sweet Helene
The lovebirds sing your name
And my heart is always singing too
Just a song that is only for you
Helene, My sweet Helene
My sunshine after rain
You’ll always be the same to me
Helene, My sweet Helene
2. What are clouds if you’re always near me
Smiling my cares away?
Rain or shine, you always can cheer me
Making December, May
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![Riding a Raid (1863)
An American Civil War song from 1863
Words: anonymous
Music: based on “Bonnie Dundee” an old Scotch air
Sung by Vancha March
Accompaniment by Benjamin R. Tubb
Get the sheet music and accompaniment here:
https://www.sheetmusicsinger.com/riding-a-raid/
Lyrics
1. Tis old Stonewall the Rebel that leans on his sword:
“Now each cavalier that loves Honor and Right,
Let him follow the feather of Stuart to night!”
Come tighten your girth and slacken your rein;
Come buckle your blanket and holster again;
Try the click of your trigger and balance your blade
For he must ride sure that goes Riding a Raid!
CHORUS
Come tighten your girth and slacken your rein;
Come buckle you blanket and holster again;
Try the click of your trigger and balance your blade
For he must ride sure that goes Riding a Raid!
2. Now gallop now gallop to swim o[‘]er t[‘]e ford!
Old Stonewall, still watching, prays low to the Lord:
“Now Bye dear old Rebel! the river’s not wide,
And Mary-land’s light’s in her window to guide.”
Come tighten your girth and slacken your rein;
Come buckle your blanket and holster again;
Try the click of your trigger and balance your blade
For he must ride sure that goes Riding a Raid!
3. There’s a man in a white house with blood on his mouth!
If there’s knaves in the North, there are braves in the South.
We are three thousand horses, and not one afraid;
We are three thousand sabres, and not one dull blade.
Come tighten your girth and slacken your rein;
Come buckle your blanket and holster again;
Try the click of your trigger and balance your blade
For he must ride sure that goes Riding a Raid!
4. Then gallop, then gallop by ravines and rocks!
Who would bar us the way take his toll in hard knocks;
For with these points of steel, on the line of Penn,
We have made some fine strokes, and we make them again.
Then tighten your girth and slacken your rein;
Come buckle your blanket and holster again;
Try the click of your trigger and balance your blade
For he must ride sure that goes Riding a Raid! Riding a Raid (1863)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/sUnDAhZhpVY/mqdefault.jpg)







