A popular song from 1923.
Words by Wm. Le Baron.
Music by Victor Herbert.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
In old New York there was a place
I wish we had today
Where boys and girls would meet
And fall in love without delay
Just above Bowling Green in the nighttime
That was the right time
Bells were tolling when they went strolling
Up that way
Refrain
Back in little old New York
When the moon was in the sky
To the kissing bridge boys
With their girls would stray
Where the old canal ran across Broadway
For romance was in the air
They were happy ne’er a care
And each boy loved his Miss
As he stole a kiss
Back in little old New York
Sung here by Laurence Rubenstein: