My Dreamy China Lady 1916

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 05 Aug 2005

Where the lantern lights are all aglow,
to a little China bungalow.
Ching Lo would go
to serenade in the evening.
But tonight his heart is sad and blue
and his little song is mournful, too.
He has come to say he must sail away
far across old China Bay.
And he sings this serenade
to his little China maid.

Slumber on, my dreamy China lady,
when the lights are burning low.
Soon I'll sail away from you
but maybe I'll return
and then you'll know
how much I love you.
Wait for me, my dreamy China lady,
when the lotus flowers bloom,
'neath the Oriental skies of blue.
In a little rickshaw built for two,
we'll go on a China honeymoon.

Slumber on, my dreamy China lady,
when the lights are burning low.
Soon I'll sail away from you
but maybe I'll return
and then you'll know
how much I love you.
Wait for me, my dreamy China lady,
when the lotus flowers bloom,
'neath the Oriental skies of blue.
In a little rickshaw built for two,
we'll go on a China honeymoon.

After many years of waiting there
Little China girl is in despair,
she sighs and cries:
"Come back to me little sweetheart."
But another day her heart will learn
that her lover never will return.
And she mourns the day that he sailed away
far across old China Bay.
Still in dreams she seems to hear
his love song ringing near.

Slumber on, my dreamy China lady,
when the lights are burning low.
Soon I'll sail away from you
but maybe I'll return
and then you'll know
how much I love you.
Wait for me, my dreamy China lady,
when the lotus flowers bloom,
'neath the Oriental skies of blue.
In a little rickshaw built for two,
we'll go on a China honeymoon.

Slumber on, my dreamy China lady,
when the lights are burning low.
Soon I'll sail away from you
but maybe I'll return
and then you'll know
how much I love you.
Wait for me, my dreamy China lady,
when the lotus flowers bloom,
'neath the Oriental skies of blue.
In a little rickshaw built for two,
we'll go on a China honeymoon.

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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My Dreamy China Lady 1916
Music by Egbert Van Alstyne
Lyrics by Gus Kahn
© MCMXVI by Jerome H. Remick & Co., New York
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sequence and karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Friday 05 August 2005 at 21.56
in association with Doug Grierson
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