A popular song from 1917
Words by P. G. Wodehouse
Music by Jerome Kern
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
Oh, let us fly without delay
Into the country far away
Where, free from all this care and strife
We’ll go and live the simple life
How clear the voice of Nature calls
I’ll go and get some overalls
And get a last year’s almanac
To read at night when things are slack
Refrain
Let’s build a little bungalow in Quogue
In Yaphank, or in Hicksville or Patchogue
Where we can sniff the scented breeze
And pluck tomatoes from the trees
Where there is room to exercise the dog
How pleasant it will be through life to jog
With Bill the bull and Hildebrand the hog
Each morn we’ll waken from our doze
When Reginald, the rooster, crows
Down in our little bungalow in Quogue
Sung here by Vancha March: