Old Man Sunshine (Little Boy Bluebird)

Lyric: Mort Dixon
Music: Harry Warren
Year: 1928
Original publisher: Remick Music Corp.

Verse 1:

Another morning again I'm alone,
Another morning among the unknown;
Strange town, strange room bare of joy,
But I'm waiting for an old man and a little boy;
If they're not present before day is done,
This wandering one will say:

Chorus:

Old man sunshine, little boy bluebird,
Shine awhile and sing awhile for me;
Old man sunshine, little boy bluebird,
Sing a song of those I long to see.
For while the sheep's in the meadow,
The cow's in the corn;
Here in the shadows I'm sad and forlorn.
Old man sunshine, little boy bluebird,
Bring a smile to melancholy me.

Verse 2:

The sun is rising, the sunbeams appear,
And when it's rising what is it I hear?
Black birds, red birds, love birds too.
Little bluebird, how I wonder what's become of you;
The sky grows cloudy, the sun says, "Goodbye,"
So I have to cry again:

[Chorus]