"While My Lady Sleeps" is a 1941 jazz standard composed by Bronisław Kaper with lyrics by Gus Kahn. The song was written for the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film The Chocolate Soldier, where it was sung by Nelson Eddy.
The song's main key is C major and its chorus has an unusual 40-bar AABC form.
Notable renditions Ray Noble and His Orchestra with Roy Lanson (1941) Chuck Wayne – The Jazz Guitarist (1953) Al Cohn – The Sax Section (1956) Phineas Newborn Jr. – While My Lady Sleeps (1957) John Coltrane – Coltrane (1957) Chet Baker – 1987 CD reissue of It Could Happen to You (1958) Nelson Eddy – Favorites in Stereo (1958) Mike Taylor – Trio (1967) Harold Mabern and Geoff Keezer – For Phineas (1995) Jan Lundgren – A Touch Of You (1998) Michael Feinstein – Fly Me to the Moon (2010)
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