(Is Comin’ Home Again)
A novelty song from 1913.
Words by Gertrude Bruckmann.
Music by Lulu Sorensen.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- Crowds are waiting on the levee down in Dixieland
In their Sunday-Go-To-Meeting clothes so grand
See them dancing in the moonlight bright
Shouting, singing with delight
What’s that ovation, that grand celebration?
Goodness don’t you know that Tug Boat Joe
Is coming home tonight
Chorus
Oh! I can hear the whistle blow
That’s Tug Boat Joe, that’s him I know
Strike up the band, everybody’s feeling grand
Just listen to that cheering, now he’s nearing
Dog-gone me, I’ll lose my hearing
‘Cause Tug Boat Joe’s comin’ home again
- Now, of course you’ve heard
The news about Eliza Brown
Course you know why Joe’s
A-comin’ back to town
To the altar soon they’ll march with pride
Joe and Liza side by side
When they’re united, the town folks delighted
Will arrange the great big barbecue
For Tug Boat Joe and his bride
Sung here by Laurence Rubenstein: