a 1922 popular song
words and music by Walter Donaldson, Raymond B. Egan & Richard A. Whiting
The sheet music:
Accompaniment:
Lyrics
- There’s a tiny bit of seashore
Where the trees of Bamboo sway
Where the sea is always moonlit
And they call it Bamboo Bay
There’s a thousand dreams about it
That are ever on my mind
There I said farewell, and sad to tell
I left my heart behind
Chorus
Drifting down on Bamboo Bay
With my love at close of day
Nightbirds in the skies above
Cried while I sighed, “I love you”
When the dawn kissed Bamboo Bay
What else was there but Au revoir to say
I never knew I’d lost my heart
Until the night we had to part
On the shores of Bamboo Bay
- And I love the most to picture
Where the trees of Bamboo sway
When the big blue moon is rising
O’er the shores of Bamboo Bay
There I see a Hindu maiden One whose heart will ever yearn
There I said farewell, and sad to tell
I promised to return
Sung here by Fred Feild: