From the musical “What’s in a Name?”, 1920.
Words by John Murray Anderson and Jack Yellen.
Music by Milton Ager.
Song suggested by Laurence Rubenstein.
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- In the days of Nineteen Twenty Ah!
Pretty girls there were a-plenty Ah!
Chaste and modest Broadway girlie Ah!
She was chased both late and early Ah!
Chorus
But now in days of fifty fifty
How we’d love to have again
Those simple ways of Nineteen Twenty
Woodrovian days of peace and plenty
Gone are the joys of pre-historic Broadway
Gone, the sacred cabarets
Gone are they all Beyond recall
In the year of Fifty Fifty
- At an ancient shrine called Rector’s Ah!
Where they served most potent nectars Ah!
Peaceful days of Woodrow Wilson Ah!
When they buried Schlitz and Pilsen Ah! - Sylph-like maidens light and airy Ah!
At Reisen-weber’s Seminary Ah!
Danced until the day was dawning Ah!
Bromo Seltzers in the morning Ah! - In the city of Manhattan Ah!
Chorus maids wore silk and satin Ah!
How entrancing were their voices Ah!
They sang in flats and got Rolls Royces Ah!
Sung here by Fred Feild: