A popular song from 1916.
words by Harry L. Cort
music by Hugo Frey
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- There’s a girl named Anna
Living in Savannah
Anna in Savannah by the sea
And she met a fellow, with a love so mellow
A roaming Romeo was he
They would walk long walks
And would talk sweet talks
Until one day he failed to appear
Then there came a note that her Romeo wrote
Addressed Miss Anna dear
You should have seen her eyes open wide
As she read these lines inside
Chorus
“Meet me in Havana, Anna
I’ll be waiting for you there
Where it’s summer in the wintertime
And the skies are always fair in sunny Cuba
So come meet me in Havana, Anna
Hurry up join me please do
And there ‘mid tropic weather
We’ll bill and coo we two together
Away down South in Havana
Anna, I’ll wait for you”
- Then this wise Miss Anna
Sent word from Savannah
Down to old Havana by the sea
That if he would tarry
She would gladly marry
And his Juliet she’d be
There is just one thing, send a wedding ring
That is one thing I want you to note
After it arrives, with my fare besides
I’ll take the fastest boat
And then he wired a welcoming “Yes
Am sending it by express”
Sung here by Fred Feild: