From the show “The Cocoanuts”, 1925.
Words and music by Irving Berlin.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
Down in the land of the cocoanuts
Before the welcome season shuts
A million ‘million-dollar nuts’ will be found
Down in the land where the trees are tall
We’re asking you to pay a call
And live where it is summer all the year ’round
Buy a lot, any piece that we’ve got
Will increase ev’ry season
Ask us why everyone wants to lie
In the sun, there’s a reason
One little ride in a Pullman car
A night and day and there you are
Come on, it’s time you should be Florida bound
Chorus
In the lovely land of Florida
Sunny Florida by the sea
All the sunshine in America
Is in Florida, you’ll agree
When they’re freezing up north
Sneezing up north
Always it’s July the Fourth
In the lovely land of Florida
Sunny Florida, by the sea
Sung here by Laurence Rubenstein: