A popular song from 1915.
Words by E. J. Meyers. Music by Will E. Dulmage.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- ‘Tis festal night in old Japan so fair
And ev’rywhere is joy and laughter
The fireflies shimmer, lanterns glimmer
And o’er the radiance there comes a fragrance
Of scented flow’rs that fill the golden hours
Bringing back the mem’ries of a happy day
The world was new, dear, I’d found you, dear
And you stole my heart away
Chorus
For it’s poppy time in Yokohama
And I think of you, Asama, mine
I can see the land of all my dreaming
Where the sweet wisterias twine
There’s the same old moon in all its splendor
Rising o’er the temples of Hosan
As each breeze blows love grows
And it’s poppy time in old Japan
- One sunny day I had to sail away
And leave my Geisha maid behind me
In Yokohama, where, Asama
You would be yearning for my returning
And when I came back to the land of flowers
I found you had vanished like the morning dew
The world seems blue, dear, without you, dear
For you took the sunshine, too
Sung here by Laurence Rubenstein: