The Japanese Sandman (06-11-36) - Artie Shaw

Won’t you stretch imagination for the moment and come with me

Let us hasten to a nation lying over the western sea

Hide behind the cherry blossoms here’s a sight that will please your eyes

There’s a baby with a lady of Japan singing lullabies

Night winds breath her sighs here’s the Japanese

Just as silent as we came we’ll leave the land of the painted fan

Wander lightly or you’ll wake the little people of old Japan

May repose and pleasant dreaming be their share while the hours are small

Like an echo of the song I hear the Japanese Sandman

Call new days near for all 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.