. . . Is good enough for me.
A 1908 popular song
words by Alex Rogers
music by Will Marion Cook and Chris Smith
The sheet music:
Accompaniment:
Lyrics
- If I were asked my choice of towns
In this great land for living
It wouldn’t take me days or weeks
My answer to be giving
I know there’s folks from Boston
Who don’t care much for Savannah
And folks who don’t speak Spanish
Wouldn’t live down in Havannah
I’ve been around a bit myself
And seeing is believing
The folks who live in Yankee Land
Have got no cause for grieving
Chorus
Any old place in Yankee Land
Is good enough for me
New York, Chicago, Frisco, or Fargo
New Orleans or Kankeekee
There’s lots of towns in this country
That I don’t think I’ll ever see
But I say any old place in Yankee Land
Is good enough for me
- You’ve met a gent who’s been abroad
To Berlin and Vienna
And bragged about the sights he’s seen
In Naples and Revenna
He’s hunted monkeys and grapefruit
Down in the Honolula’s
In Africa he’s killed about
Ten hundred thousand Zulus
He says his chain of travels
‘Round the globe has been unbroken
But this same gent is now content
To live out in Hoboken
Sung here by Fred Feild: