Sleepy Lagoon

"Sleepy Lagoon" can refer to:

  • "(By the) Sleepy Lagoon", a piece of light orchestral music written in 1940 by Eric Coates, used as the title theme for the BBC Radio series Desert Island Discs and adapted into a song by Jack Lawrence.
  • The 1942 Sleepy Lagoon murder, which led to the Zoot Suit riots.
  • Sleepy Lagoon, a 1943 movie.

Famous quotes containing the word sleepy:

    “His eyelids droop, his head falls low,
    His old eyes cloud with dreams;
    The sun upon all things that grow
    Falls in sleepy streams.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)