Japanese Sandman Lyrics
Japanese Sandman
Won't you stretch imagination for the moment and come with me?Let us hasten to a nation lying over the western sea
Right behind the cherry blossoms here's a sight that will please your eyes
There's a lady with a baby of Japan singing lullabies
Hear her as she cries:
"Here's the Japanese Sandman sneaking on with the dew just an old second hand man
He'll buy your old day from you
he will take every sorrow of the day that is through
and he'll give you tomorrow just to start a life anew
then you'll be a bit older in the dawn when you wake
and you'll be a bit bolder with the new day you make
here's the Japanese Sandman trade him silver for gold
just an old second hand man trading new days for old."
(Richard A. Whiting Medley)
(lyrics by Raymond B. Egan)
(Nora Bayes, 1920)