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The Japanese Sandman

Words by R. B. Egan, Music by R. A. Whiting - 1920

Verse:-----------	------------------	------------------	------------------
Fm          Edim	Fm       Db9  B9	C7	-
Fm          Edim	Fm     Bbm Bdim	C7	-
Ab          Eb7	Ab       Bb7	Ab        Bbdim	C7
Fm          Edim	Fm       Db7  C7	Fm         F7	Bb         F7
Bb          C7	F	C7	F
Chorus:---------	------------------	------------------	------------------
F	-	D7	-
G7         C7	-	F	-
-	-	A	-
E7	-	A         Adim	Gm        C
F	F7	Bb	-
Bbm	-	Gm7	C7
F	-	Dm        Bb	G7         F
-          Dm6	C7	F	-    (to chorus)

8-beat intro.  Play 4-beats for each cell, reading from left to right.

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Verse:

Won't you stretch im -ag -i -na -tion for the mo -ment and come with me

Let us hast -en to a na -tion ly -ing o -ver the west -ern sea

Hide be -hind the cher -ry blos -soms here's a sight that will please your eyes

There's a ba -by with a la -dy of Ja -pan sing -ing lull -a -bies

Night winds breathe her sighs

 

Chorus:

Here's the Jap -a -nese Sand -man Sneak -ing on with the dew

Just an old sec -ond hand man He'll buy your old day from you

He will take ev -'ry sor -row Of the day that is through

And he'll give you to -mor -row Just to start life a -new

Then you'll be a bit old -er In the dawn when you wake

And you'll be a bit bold -er With the new day you make

Here's the Jap -a -nese Sand -man Trade him sil -ver for gold

Just an old sec -ond hand man Trad -ing new days for old

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Arranged by Jim Bottorff

 

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