Featured in the 1905 musical “In New York Town”
Words by Earle C. Jones
Music by Albert Von Tilzer
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by Gerd Westendorp:
Lyrics
- Down on the East side of little New York
At a place they call Mulberry Bend
There is a park where each boy, after dark
Takes his sweetheart or dear lady friend
That’s where you will find Tony, the fruit peddler’s son
With a girlie that lives o’er the way
And when the band’s playing so others can’t hear
He’ll sing with the music and say
Refrain
Sweet Rosa Rosetta
My pretty coquetta
I love-a you more-a and more
I only regretta that I never met’a
You sooner my Rosa before
If you’ll be my pet-a
We’ll live on spaghetta
And save-a da money you see
Then we’ll go to Rome-a
Where I’ll build a home-a
For Rosa Rosetta and me
- Down by the ocean, where sea breezes blow
There’s a spot that is called Coney Isle
That’s where Tony goes with his sweet little Rose
And they visit the Island in style
But when the boat’s leaving the old Iron Pier
And the string band commences to play
You’ll find them on deck in the darkness I bet
For that gives him action to say
Sung here by Vancha March: