From the 1936 film “San Francisco”
words by Gus Kahn
music by Bronislaw Kaper and Walter Jurmann
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
It only takes a tiny corner of
This great big world to make a place you love
My home upon the hill
I find I love you still
I’ve been away, but now I’m back to tell you
Chorus
San Francisco open your golden gate
You let no stranger wait outside your door
San Francisco, here is your wandering one
Saying, “I’ll wander no more”
Other places only make me love you best
Tell me you’re the heart of all the golden west
San Francisco, welcome me home again
I’m coming home to go roaming no more
Sung here by Laurence Rubenstein: