Sadie Salome

(Go Home)
A popular song from 1909
Words and music by Edgar Leslie and Irving Berlin


The sheet music:


Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:


Lyrics

  1. Sadie Cohen left her happy home
    To become an actress lady
    On the stage she soon became the rage
    As the only real Salomy baby
    When she came to town, her sweetheart Mose
    Brought for her around a pretty rose
    But he got an awful fright
    When his Sadie came to sight
    He stood up and yelled with all his might:

Chorus
Don’t do that dance, I tell you Sadie
That’s not a bus’ness for a lady!
‘Most ev’rybody knows
That I’m your loving Mose
Oy, Oy, Oy, Oy
Where is your clothes?
You better go and get your dresses
Ev’ryone’s got the opera glasses
Oy! such a sad disgrace
No one looks in your face
Sadie Salome, go home

  1. From the crowd Moses yelled out loud,
    “Who put in your head such notions?
    You look sweet but jiggle with your feet
    Who put in your back such funny motions?
    As a singer you was always fine!
    Sing to me, ‘Because the world is mine!'”
    Then the crowd began to roar
    Sadie did a new encore
    Mose got mad and yelled at her once more

Sung here by Laurence Rubenstein: