RED SAILS IN THE SUNSET 
Jimmy Kennedy / Hugh Williamson (aka Will Grosz)

Bing Crosby - 1935
Guy Lombardo - 1935
Jack Jackson - 1935
Mantovani - 1935
Louis Armstrong - 1936
Nat King Cole - 1951
Tab Hunter - 1957 
The Platters - 1960
Fats Domino - 1963


'Twas down where fisher folk gather,
I wander'd far from the throng
I heard a fisher girl singing
And this refrain was her song:

(Chorus)
Red sails in the sunset
'Way out on the sea
Oh! carry my loved one
Home safely to me.
He sailed at the dawning
All day I've been blue
Red sails in the sunset
I'm trusting in you
Swift wings you must borrow
Make straight for the shore
We marry tomorrow
And he goes sailing no more.
Red sails in the sunset
'Way out on the sea
Oh! carry my loved one
Home safely to me.

Red sails, the night wind is blowing
And clouds are hiding the moon
Above no bright stars are glowing
It means the storm's coming soon.


(Corrections by Walt n9wg - January 2005
From original sheet music)