A 1920 popular song.
Words by Mitchell Parish.
Music by Neuman Fier.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- Sentimental places
Oriental faces
Call to me o’er the distant sea
Silver moonlight falling
Eastern voices calling
Remind me of a place I long to be
Chorus
Let me go where the Jack O’ Lanterns glow
Where the yellow moon hangs low
Life is full of golden hours
Let me go where the scented breezes blow
Someone Misses me I know
In the land of lotus flowers
Japanee is waiting there for me
Underneath the weeping willow tree
I want to go where the Jack O’ Lanterns glow
- Lamps of night are burning
Memories are turning
O’er and o’er to that distant shore
All the while I’m dreaming
All the while I’m scheming
To get back to the one that I adore