A Perfect Day (song)

This article is about the 1910 parlor song. For other songs, see Perfect Day.
Front cover of "A Perfect Day" for low voice
A Perfect Day
Instrumental rendition done by the McKee Trio, 1915
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"A Perfect Day" (first line: "When you come to the end of a perfect day") is a parlor song written by Carrie Jacobs-Bond (1862–1946) in 1909 at the Mission Inn, Riverside, California.[1] Jacobs-Bond wrote the lyrics after watching the sun set over Mount Rubidoux from her 4th-floor room. She came up with the tune three months later while touring the Mojave Desert.[2] For many years the Mission Inn played "A Perfect Day" on its carillon at the end of each day.[3]

  1. ^ The place is indicated in a line inserted above the title on p. 3 of the high voice (soprano) edition published in 1938 by the Boston Music Company; this version is in the key of C.
  2. ^ Reublein, "America's first great woman popular song composer" site.
  3. ^ Mission Inn Museum Jacobs-Bond site. Archived 2009-07-06 at the Wayback Machine The Mission Inn maintains a Carrie Jacobs-Bond Suite. Archived 2010-02-14 at the Wayback Machine