The Beauty of Your Smile

Bob Nolan
Original copyright: July 4, 1936

There’s beauty in each little flow’r,
Each star of a midnight sky.
And there’s beauty in the lonely cloud
That floats so lazily by.
Each loveliness that nature holds
I’ve seen them all awhile,
But she has nothing to compare
To the beauty of your smile.

Refrain:
Many weary miles I roam
To the far off land I’ve known,
But I travel on in the beauty of your smile, dear.
Oh, my life was sometimes sad,
But you’ve made my poor heart glad
When you changed it all with the beauty of your smile, dear.
When they needed angels ‘way up there in heaven,
They came and took you, darlin’, to the sky.
Then they placed a silver star
Just to tell me where you are
And each night it shines with the beauty of your smile.

"The Beauty of Your Smile" was published in Songs of the Pioneers, Folio No. 2, ©1936 by Cross & Winge, Inc., but it was never commercially recorded. The Sons of the Pioneers did sing it on stage at least once, according to penciled chord changes marked on the lyric sheet.

 Bob Nolan stated that all his songs were from his imagination therefore we are not to think that his sweetheart in this song had died. Two more Nolan songs, “I Wonder if She Waits for Me Tonight” and “Oh, I Miss You So, My Darling” have the same theme. The song was registered for copyright on July 4, 1936.

"The Beauty of Your Smile" was published in Songs of the Pioneers, Folio No. 2, ©1936 by Cross & Winge, Inc. The lyrics are also found in Bob’s repertoire box.
The Beauty of Your Smile (Cross & Winge, Inc.)
Typed copy of the lyrics from Bob Nolan’s repertoire box

The song was never commercially recorded (although the Sons of the Pioneers did sing it on stage at least once, according to penciled chord changes marked on the lyric sheet in Bob’s repertoire box.

We sent the sheet music to Dave Bourne, and he kindly made a demo for us in 2001.