a 1922 popular song
words and music by Irving Berlin
The sheet music:
Accompaniment – piano roll Supreme 6254:
Lyrics
Back to the olden days that were golden
Memory often strays
Before anyone could gaze
At Molly’s and May’s little ankle displays
Time with its changes often arranges
Styles that become the craze
But I am yearning to be returning
Back to those crinoline days
Chorus:
In those dear old Crinoline days
Old fashioned people with their old fashioned ways
When the girl a fellow courted
Was the girl he married and supported
Back in eighteen-seventy-four
Rosy complexions weren’t bought in a store
Granny and grand-daddy longingly gaze
Back to those Crinoline days
Sung here by Fred Feild: