“You’re the Girl of My Dreams” is a lost-love song sung by a man who first met a blue-eyed girl called Jane in lover’s lane. They walked and sang together with the birds, and in the evenings sat on the old porch swing while she sang of happy days gone by. She once told him she would be his own, but she has gone far away and another man has won her hand. The refrain says she is the girl of his dreams, and that his dreams seem never to come true; she still lingers in his heart and memory.
Discographies disagree about who wrote it. Releases of the song carry the credit A. P. Carter, M. Wiseman or Wise-O-Man Music, and some list no writer. Mac Wiseman recorded it for Dot around March 1952 at the WHIN radio studio in Gallatin, Tennessee, and Dot issued it as Dot 1115, coupled with “I Wonder How the Old Folks Are at Home.” On 19 April 1979 Wiseman recorded it again with Bobby and Sonny Osborne at Hilltop Recording Studio in Nashville, on the CMH album The Essential Bluegrass Album.
Larry Sparks and the Lonesome Ramblers recorded it on 2 April 1987 at Chandler Audio in Ashland, Kentucky, for the Rebel album Silver Reflections. Wiseman sang it again with David Grisman on mandolin on Life of Sorrow (Acoustic Disc, 2003), and Del McCoury included it on Celebrating 50 Years of Del McCoury (2009).
