WHEN THE WORLD IS AT REST 


(Lou Davis / Sammy Fain (m & l) )


As sung by Annette Hanshaw 1929 (recorded under the name Gay Ellis)


Also sung by:

Joe Mooney

Janet Klein

Elaine Lucia

William Broussard


Evening, evening

I welcome you

When the shadows greet

The suns in the west.


Evening, evening

Day's work is through

And soon the world's at rest.


Flowers droop their heads

It's the way they go to bed

When the world is at rest.


LIttle fire flies

Buzz around and light the skies

When the world is at rest.


Night birds coo and call

Moon starts to crawl

Little stars start to tumble and fall.


Bees are in their comb

It's their sugar coated home

When the world is at rest.


There's a love's refrain

That goes out from lover's lane

When the world is at rest.


I have my own blue heaven

My flowered nest

I'm in heaven now with my angel

When the world is at rest.


(bridge)


Bees are in their comb

It's their sugar coated home

When the world is at rest.


There's a love refrain

That goes out from lover's lane

When the world is at rest.


I have my own blue heaven

My flowered nest

Oh, I'm in heaven now with my angel

When the world is at rest.


That's all!


Notes:


(Catherine) Annette Hanshaw, an American, was a blues and jazz singer

from the 1920s and early 1930s and was  purportedly one of the first

female jazz singers of that era.


She was known as 'The Personality Girl' or later as the 'The Flapper

Girl' by her followers and fit the 1920s period perfectly with her

flapper style and sweet innocent-sounding voice. She often ended her

songs with the tag "That's All" (above).


See  MY BLACKBIRDS ARE BLUEBIRDS NOW and  
LOVABLE & SWEET  as other

examples of her unique tag line (above).


Some consider the later Hanshaw, a 'torch singer' along with the likes

of Ruth Etting, Mildred Bailey, Jane Froman and Bebe Daniels. Strangely,

she thought her abilities 'wanting' by her own standards and retired

early to married life, after only 15 years in the business.


Hanshaw also recorded under the names 'Gay Ellis' or 'Dot Dare' or

'Patsy Young' and a variety of other pseudonyms.


(Transcribed by David Story- May 2014)