SAND IN MY SHOES
(Frank Loesser / Victor Schertzinger)

Hutch

Also recorded by : The Boswell Sisters; Connee Boswell;
Marge Dodson; Robert Farnon; Adelaide Hall; Leslie Hutchinson;
Jackie & Roy; Betty Johnson; Marjorie Kingsley; Marian McPartland;
Nancy Nelson; Tito Puente; Savoy Hotel Orpheans; George Shearing;
Bobby Short.


Sand in my shoes, sand from Havana
Calling me to that ever so heavenly shore
Calling me back to you once more
Dreams in the night, dreams of Havana
Dreams of a love I hadn’t the strength to refuse
Darling the sand is in my shoes
Deep in my veins the sensuous strains
Of the soft guitar
Deep in my soul the thunderous roll
Of a tropic sea under the stars,
That was Havana
You are the moonlit mem’ry I can’t seem to lose
That’s why my life’s an endless cruise
All that is real is the feel of the sand in my shoes

(Instrumental Interlude)

Deep in my veins the sensuous strains
Of the soft guitar
Deep in my soul the thunderous roll
Of a tropic sea under the stars,
That was Havana
You are the moonlit mem’ry I can’t seem to lose
That’s why my life’s an endless cruise
All that is real is the feel of the sand in my shoes
Sand in my shoes
Sand from Havana.


(Transcribed by Bill Huntley - December 2004)