(In My Home Town)
A popular song from 1911
Words and music by Irving Berlin
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- One fine day on Broadway
Simple Sally Brown
Met a trav’ling salesman
Who was trav’ling around
“Howdy do, how are you?
Let’s go see the town”
Sally answered, “What a pity
I would like to but the city
Folks would talk, they would talk
You know that they can
But I’d like to know you better
Mister Trav’ling Man
Chorus
When you’re in town, in my home town
Look me up, look me up
I’ll be happy to see you
When you’re passing my way
Drop in and stay
If you’ll come, you’re welcome
As flowers in May
And you can hang your samples
On a sour apple tree
And I’ll see that no one’s around
For I’d much rather walk
Where the neighbors don’t talk
When in town call around, goodbye
- Sally Brown settled down
Wed her trav’ling man
He said, “Dearie
I’ll be home as much as I can”
Trav’ling men, now and then
Get a telegram
Their employer sends a wire
“Go and see a certain buyer”
Looking ’round, Sally found
In her hubby’s coat
Seven diff’rent notes
That seven diff’rent females wrote
Sung here by Laurence Rubenstein: