A popular song from 1920
Words by Alex Sullivan
Music by Lynn Cowan
The sheet music:
Lyrics
Shades of nights are softly falling
Nightingales are sweetly calling
In the east the world has gone to rest
Darkness o’er the mountains
Creeping Moon and stars no longer sleeping
Forced the sun to hide its head
Deep in the golden west
On the beach the waves are sighing
Seagulls now our homeward flying
Golden Gate swings open just for you and me
The sunset out there
A picture so fair I belong to see
Chorus:
California Sunset, famous everywhere
Orange blossoms perfume sweetly fill the air
Mission bells are ringing at the close of day
Love’s own message bringing to all sweethearts gay
California Sunset with your beauty rare
With your nights of gladness nothing can compare
And though I roam I’ll be proud and true
Dear California Sunset of you