a 1922 popular song
words by Mitchell Parish
melody by Eleanor Young and Harry D. Squires
The sheet music:
Accompaniment – player piano roll QRS-2143
Played by Max Kortlander:
Lyrics
- Georgia land, Georgia land
There’s a little trip I’ve planned
What a fool I’ve been I know
I should have planned it long ago
Cabin doors, cabin doors
How I envy everyone
This is what you’ll hear me saying
With the rising of the sun
(Dog gone you)
Chorus:
Georgia cabin door, come on and swing wide open for
Your little rolling stone who’s rolling home today (I’ve missed you)
Georgia cabin door, I’ll never leave you any more
When I get back, I’m gonna stay
I know inside I’ll find, someone I left behind
Oh! how she must have pined, while I’ve been away
Say! (God bless you)
Georgia cabin door, come on and swing wide open for
Your little rolling stone who’s rolling home today
Patter:
When I left my Georgia, thought that I was wise
It didn’t take me long to open up my eyes
When you’ve been a rover, and you’ve knocked about
You’re sure to come back wiser than you started out
Puppies, don’t you weaken, carry me along
Soon you’ll hear the finish of my hard luck song
Gee, can you imagine me tomorrow morn
How I adore that cabin door, where I was born
My Georgia cabin door, come on and swing wide open for
Your little rolling stone who’s rolling home today
- Georgia land, Georgia land
I suppose you understand
That the grandest spot on earth
Must be the place that gave me birth
In that place, there’s a face
That I’d give the world to see
This is what you’ll hear me saying
When I’m where I want to be
(Dog gone you)
Sung here by Fred Feild: