FAR AWAY PLACES
(Alex Kramer / Joan Whitney)

Bing Crosby & The Ken Darby Choir - 1949
Margaret Whiting - 1949
Perry Como - 1949
Dinah Shore - 1949

Also recorded by: Tom Anderson; Ray Anthony Orch.; The Bachelors;
Benny Carter; Don Cherry; Ray Conniff; Sam Cooke; Eddie & the Showmen; 
The Embers; Shelby Flint; John Gary; Engelbert Humperdinck;
Enoch Light; Dean Martin; Glenn Miller; Neal & Leandra; Willie Nelson; 
Jay Patten & the Swing Noir Orch.; Donald Peers; Gene Pitney; 
Frank Sinatra; Johnny Hammond Smith; Kate Smith; Springfields; 
Lawrence Welk; Joe Wilder; Young-Holt Unlimited.


Far away places with strange-soundin' names
Far away over the sea
Those far away places with the strange-soundin' names
Are callin', callin' me

Goin' to China or maybe Siam
I want to see for myself
Those far away places I've been readin' about
In a book that I took from the shelf

I start gettin' restless whenever I hear
The whistle of a train
I pray for the day I can get underway
And look for those castles in Spain

They call me a dreamer, well maybe I am
But I know that I'm burnin' to see
Those far away places with the strange-soundin' names
Callin', callin' me

(I pray for the day when I'll find a way
Those far away places to see)

Those far away places with the strange-soundin' names
Callin', callin' me