A popular song from 1916.
Words by Gus Kahn.
Music by Egbert Van Alstyne.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- Where the lantern lights are all aglow
To a little China bungalow Ching Lo would go
To serenade in the ev’ning
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
Chorus
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
Sung here by Vancha March: