WHEN YOU AWAKE
(Henry Nemo)

as recorded by Tommy Dorsey & his Orchestra
(vocal - Frank Sinatra)
September 9th 1940 New York


When you awake,
The day takes a bow at your door.
When you awake,
The sun shines like never before.
Clouds soaked with rain
Find it hard to explain
To the earth below,
They can't let it rain,
For then it would stain
A heavenly show;
You make it so!

When you awake,
You open the eyes of my heart.
When you awake,
My day really gets its great start.
All the winds and the birds
Join the simple refrain
Of a rippling stream;
My world becomes 
A midsummer night's dream
When you awake!




(Transcribed by Peter Akers - March 2018)