{"id":34808,"date":"2014-06-19T12:00:59","date_gmt":"2014-06-19T12:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eoisabi.org\/?p=34808"},"modified":"2020-04-28T21:47:10","modified_gmt":"2020-04-28T21:47:10","slug":"mr-sandman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/?p=34808","title":{"rendered":"Mr Sandman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kXXRSEXcCzk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><b>\u00abMr. Sandman<\/b>\u00ab<\/a> (sometimes rendered as \u00ab<b>Mister Sandman<\/b>\u00ab) is a\u00a0popular\u00a0song written by\u00a0Pat Ballard\u00a0which was published in\u00a01954\u00a0and first recorded in that year by\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IaHS1K3H66c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Chordettes<\/a><\/strong>. The song&#8217;s lyrics convey a request to \u00abMr. Sandman\u00bb to \u00abbring me a dream\u00bb\u00a0\u2013 the traditional association with the\u00a0folkloric\u00a0figure, the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sandman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sandman.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VNUgsbKisp8\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h6 id=\"watch-headline-title\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\u25ca \u00a0Pomplamoose\u00a0 \u00a0\u2193 \u00a0[2010]<\/h6>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/som7MPlJm_M\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong> \u2665 \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ebbMI5u0B1c#t=36\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Emmylou Harris<\/a> \u00a0\u2193 \u00a0<\/strong>[1981]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/90QQCr_Q1eQ\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Mr. Sandman, bring me a dream<br \/>\nMake him the cutest that I&#8217;ve ever seen<br \/>\nGive him two lips like roses and clover<br \/>\nAnd tell him that his lonesome nights are over<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Sandman, I&#8217;m so alone<br \/>\nDon&#8217;t have nobody to call my own<br \/>\nPlease turn on your magic beam<br \/>\nMr. Sandman, bring me a dream<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=n-c66SJPuUI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-34809\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eoisabi.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/sandman.jpg\" alt=\"sandman\" width=\"189\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/sandman.jpg 189w, https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/sandman-106x150.jpg 106w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 189px) 100vw, 189px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nMr. Sandman, bring me a dream<br \/>\nMake him the cutest that I&#8217;ve ever seen<br \/>\nGive him the word that I&#8217;m not a rover<br \/>\nAnd tell him that his lonesome nights are over<\/p>\n<p>Sandman, I&#8217;m so alone<br \/>\nDon&#8217;t have nobody to call my own<br \/>\nPlease turn on your magic beam<br \/>\nMr. Sandman, bring me a dream<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Sandman, bring us a dream<br \/>\nGive him a pair of eyes with a come hither gleam<br \/>\nGive him a lonely heart like Pagliacci<br \/>\nAnd lots of wavy hair like Liberace<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Sandman, someone to hold<br \/>\nWould be so peachy before we&#8217;re too old<br \/>\nSo please turn on your magic beam<br \/>\nMr. Sandman, bring us, please, please, please<br \/>\nMr. Sandman, bring us a dream<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00abMr. Sandman\u00ab (sometimes rendered as \u00abMister Sandman\u00ab) is a popular song written by Pat Ballard which was published in 1954 and first recorded in that year by The Chordettes. The song&#8217;s lyrics convey a request to \u00abMr. Sandman\u00bb to \u00abbring me a dream\u00bb \u2013 the traditional association with the folkloric figure, the sandman.<\/p>\n<p> [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":34809,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[102,313],"class_list":["post-34808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-songs","tag-lyrics","tag-america","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34808"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53039,"href":"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34808\/revisions\/53039"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/34809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}