Red Sails In the Sunset
Platters

{Red sails in the sunset, way out on the sea}
Oh, carry my loved one home safely to me
{She sailed at the dawning, all day I've been blue}
Red sails in the sunset, I'm trusting in you

Swift wings you must borrow
Make straight for the shore
We marry tomorrow
And she goes sailing no more

{Red sails in the sunset, way out on the sea}
Oh, carry my loved one home safely to me



Swift wings you must borrow
Make straight for the shore
We marry tomorrow
And she goes sailing no more

{Red sails in the sunset}
Way out on the sea (ooh-wee-ooh, wee-ooh)
Oh, carry my loved one
{Home safely to me}

{bracketed words are sung by Nat in unison with background singers}
(words in parentheses are sung by background singers only)
© 1960 (#36) Words by Jimmy Kennedy and music by Hugh Williams
-Artist: Nat King Cole -peak Billboard position # 24 in 1951 -previously charted in 1935 by Bing Crosby (#1), Guy Lombardo (also # !), -Mantovani (#3), and Jack Jackson (# 13) -previously charted in 1936 by Louis Armstrong (#15) -subsequently charted by Tab Hunter in 1957 (#57), The Platters in 1960 (#36) -and by Fats Domino in 1963 (#35).