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Thread #19665   Message #843674
Posted By: Jim Dixon
08-Dec-02 - 11:43 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Sundown (1930's radio theme)
Subject: Lyr Add: AT SUNDOWN (Walter Donaldson)
AMG/All Music Guide lists 110 recordings of "At Sundown".

San Joaquin Valley Library System has a copy of the sheet music for a song called EVERY LITTLE BREEZE IS SIGHING (AT SUNDOWN). (Click here for information about how to borrow it from them.)

Following lyrics copied from http://www.spiritofsinatra.com/pages/Lyrics/a/At_Sundown.htm
With additional information from
http://www.thepeaches.com/music/frank/AtSundown.txt

AT SUNDOWN
(Walter Donaldson, 1927)

Sunbeams are gently fading, slowly fading,
And birds are waiting to do their mating,
When eventide is nigh,
moonbeams are descending,
The day is ending, a happy ending,
The sun is sinking below the western sky.

CHORUS: Every little breeze is sighing of love undying at sundown,
Every little bird is resting and feather-nesting at sundown.
Each little rosebud is sleeping
while shadows are creeping,
In a little cottage cozy, the world seems rosy at sundown
Where a loving smile will greet me and always meet me at sundown.
I seem to sigh, I'm in heaven,
When night is falling and love is calling me home.

Daydreams through fields of clover, will soon be over,
And happy hours 'mid sunny flowers will wait another day,
Sweet dreams have just begun, dear, the day is done, dear,
When skies grow dimmer,
And stars will glimmer along the starlit way.

[From the Film: The Joker Is Wild
Label: Paramount Pictures
Recorded (by Frank Sinatra): October 3, 1956
Originally made famous by: (1) Cliff Edwards (2) George Olsen.]