A popular song from 1916.
Words by Howard Johnson.
Music by Harry De Costa.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- I’ve been around your town and seen the sights
But now I’m through, I’m telling you
That I’ve made up my mind to stay home nights
There’s lots to do, I mean it, too
Because my old friend bankroll was getting thinner
And before it got to late
I hired a furnished room, goodbye to gloom
And now I’m mighty glad to state
Chorus
“I’m saving up the means, to get to New Orleans
I’ll buy a trunk and pack it, leave this racket
I’ll be happy when I’m bound
Back to those childhood scenes
And mother’s home-made beans, I’m thirsty
Gee whiz! I want a silver fizz
Like they make in my home town
Down there in New Orleans
I’ll wear my old blue jeans
I’ll find the girl I left behind me in her teens
I know a train that goes a mile a minute
You bet your life I’m goin’ to be right in it
On my way back home to New Orleans”
- Now you can have your great big northern town
Your city ways, and problem plays
They’re just a bunch of worries, cares and frowns
In cabarets the nights are days
I’d rather be in Dixie, where I can rough it
In the good old country style
And when I get back there I’ll breathe that air
And change my wrinkles to a smile
Sung here by Vancha March: