[WARNING: This song contains antiquated racial stereotypes. It is presented here for historical and educational purposes only.]
With Friday on Saturday night?
a 1916 popular song
words by Sam L. Lewis and Joe Young
music by George W. Meyer
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- Thousands of years ago, or maybe more
Out on an island, on a lonely shore
Robinson Crusoe landed one fine day
No rent to pay, and no wife to obey
His good man Friday was his only friend
He didn’t borrow or lend
They built a little hut, lived there till Friday
But Saturday night it was shut
Chorus
Where did Robinson Crusoe go
With Friday on Saturday night?
Every Saturday night
They would start in to roam
And on Sunday morning
They’d come staggering home
On this island lived wild men
In cannibal trimmin’
And where there are wild men
There must be wild women
So where did Robinson Crusoe go
With Friday on Saturday night?
- Robinson Crusoe was a good old scout
Robinson Crusoe knew his way about
He’d go out hunting chickens now and then
But he knew when he was chasing a hen
Once he told Friday, “You must stay at home
I’ve got to go out alone”
Friday felt very blue, he said, “It’s wrong of you
Couldn’t you fix it for two?”
Sung here by Fred Feild: