"Chinatown, My Chinatown" is a popular song written by
William JeromeWilliam Jerome was a United States songwriter. He grew up in Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York, and worked with Jean Schwartz on many songs and shows in the 1900s and early 1910s....
(w.) and
Jean SchwartzJean Schwartz was a songwriter.Schwartz was born in Budapest, Hungary. His family moved to New York City when he was 13 years old...
(m.) in 1910. The song is named for a refrain in the chorus:
- Chinatown, my Chinatown,
- Where the lights are low,
- Hearts that know no other land,
- Drifting to and fro,
- Dreamy, dreamy Chinatown,
- Almond eyes of brown,
- Hearts seem light and life seem bright
- In dreamy Chinatown.
Jerome and Schwartz incorporated Chinese musical forms into Western music for the melody.
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"Chinatown, My Chinatown" is a popular song written by
William JeromeWilliam Jerome was a United States songwriter. He grew up in Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York, and worked with Jean Schwartz on many songs and shows in the 1900s and early 1910s....
(w.) and
Jean SchwartzJean Schwartz was a songwriter.Schwartz was born in Budapest, Hungary. His family moved to New York City when he was 13 years old...
(m.) in 1910. The song is named for a refrain in the chorus:
- Chinatown, my Chinatown,
- Where the lights are low,
- Hearts that know no other land,
- Drifting to and fro,
- Dreamy, dreamy Chinatown,
- Almond eyes of brown,
- Hearts seem light and life seem bright
- In dreamy Chinatown.
Jerome and Schwartz incorporated Chinese musical forms into Western music for the melody. The song has been recorded many times and is a
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