A 1918 popular song.
Words by William Jerome.
Music by Harry Jentes and Milton Ager.
Song suggested by Laurence Rubenstein.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- Wounded on the firing line
Taken away and then
He cried, “Nursie, I’m feeling fine
Let me go back again”
Nurse said, “Brave boy, you did your best
You need a rest, I know”
He answer’d back, “If I’ve got to rest
I’ll tell you where I want to go”
Chorus
Please take me back to that rose covered shack
Where the bees, in the trees, hum those southern melodies
Beautiful Dixieland
Somebody’s there in an old rocking chair, my sweetheart
I want to put my arms ’round mother mine
And ‘twine them ’round her like a clinging vine
So won’t you please take me back
Oh, take me back to that rose covered shack
2. Far away in Somebody’s Land
Somebody’s heart must yearn
In the window there is a light
It burns for his return
In his dreams he’s back there again
Back to that dear old home
Someone he knew brought this message back
To someone waiting o’er the foam
Sung here by Fred Feild: