A popular song from 1926.
Words and music by Haven Gillespie, Seymour Simons and Richard A. Whiting.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- I have been a rover since I was a child
No one to love or care for me
Knocked around all over, kinda grew up wild
My home’s wherever I may be
Chorus
I’m just breezin’ along with the breeze
Trailin’ the rails, roamin’ the seas
Like the birdies that sing in the trees
Pleasin’ to live, livin’ to please
The sky is the only roof I have over my head
And when I’m weary
Mother Nature makes me a bed
I’m just goin’ along as I please
Breezin’ along with the breeze
- Ain’t no someone yearnin’, wonderin’ where I be
I’m gone, but no one’s missin’ me
Ain’t no light a-burnin’ ev’ry night for me
I’m like a bird that’s flyin’ free
Sung here by Laurence Rubenstein: