From “The Happiest Night of His Life”, 1910
Words by Junie McCree
Music by Albert Von Tilzer
The sheet music:
Lyrics
- In a great big Western town
There are men of some renown
And Chicago wears a crown
For her girls are pretty
On an island in the East
Just to see it is a feast
Pretty girls are not the least
In good old New York City
Chorus
Oh you Chicago
Oh you New York
How do you like the traffic in our railroad yards
And beauty of our boulevards?
I don’t want to mention our stockyards of pork
I’m glad that you did
Now does your city take a pride
In leading pigs to homicide
Or is it a custom or is it a trade?
It’s just a business deal for every little porker
Helps to fatten some New Yorker
Mine is a plumpness porkchops never made
Oh you New York
Oh you Chicago
- Foreigners who visit here
Hold Chicago very dear
When they leave they’re full of cheer
That’s the way we treat them
You will find that when they’re full
From your city they will pull
We just fill them up with bull
Most every time we meet them
Chorus
Oh you Chicago
Oh you New York
Can you tell why some foreigners are satisfied
To reach New York and there reside
Their eyes are not open, they don’t know our talk
As soo as they learn to pronounce Chicago
They don’t rest until they’re in the Middle West
Chicago don’t brag much, her people don’t blow
If they don’t blow, then it is certainly a pity
That it’s called the windy city
Mine is the big town
You just watch us grow
Oh you New York
Oh you Chicago