A song from the film “Sayonara”, 1957.
Words and music by Irving Berlin.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- Sayonara, Japanese goodbye
Whisper sayonara, but you mustn’t cry
No more we stop to see pretty cherry blossoms
No more we ‘neath the tree looking at the sky
Sayonara, sayonara, goodbye
2. Sayonara, if it must be so
Whisper sayonara, whispering as we go
No more we stop to see pretty cherry blossoms
No more we ‘neath the tree looking at the sky
Sayonara, sayonara, goodbye
Sung here by Laurence Rubenstein: