Won't you stretch imagination 

for the moment and come with me

Let us hasten to a nation 

lying over the western sea

Hide behind the cherry blossoms 

here's a sight that will please your eyes

There's a baby with a lady 

of Japan singing lullabies

Night winds breath her sighs 

here's theJapanese

Just as silent as we came we'll leave the land of the painted fan

Wander lightly or you'll wake the little people of old Japan

May repose and pleasant dreaming be their share while the hours are small

Like an echo of the song I hear theJapaneseSandman

call new days near for all 

here's theJapaneseSandman

sneaking on with the dew 

just an old second hand man

He'll buy your old day from you

he will take every sorrow of the day that is through

and he'll give you tomorrow just to start a life anew

then you'll be a bit older in the dawn when you wake

and you'll be a bit bolder with the new day you make

here's theJapaneseSandmantrade him silver for gold

just an old second hand man trading new days for old.