Sheet Music, 1910-1919
Title
I'm Saving Up the Means to Get to New Orleans / music by Harry de costa; words by Howard Johnson
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ISBN
MUM00682, 0062
Description
Cover: drawing of three scenes of African Americans, one of picking cotton, another of a duo singing and playing banjo, and the last of dock workers; photo inset of singer Emma Carus; Publisher: Leo Feist Inc. (New York)
Subject Headings (Library of Congress)
Songs -- United States -- 20th Century; Popular Music -- United States
Relational Format
music score
Original Format
scores
Original Collection
Sheldon Harris Collection (MUM00682), Archives and Special Collections, University of Mississippi Libraries
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Lyrics
Lyrics:
First verse
I've been around your town and seen the sights, But now I'm through, I'm telling you, That I've made up my mind to stay home nights, There's lots to do, I mean it too, Because my old friend bankroll was getting thinner, and before it got too late, I hired a furnished room, Goodbye to gloom, and now I'm mighty glad to state:
Chorus
I'm saving up the means, to get to New Orleans, I'll buy a trunk and pack it, leave this racket, I'll be happy when I'm bound Back to those childhood scenes and mother's homemade beans, I'm thirsty, Gee whiz! I want a silver fizz, like they make in my home town. Down there in New Orleans, I'll wear my old blue jeans, I'll find the girl I left behind me in her teens, I know a train that goes a mile a minute, You bet your life I'm going' to be right in it, On my way back home to New Orleans. I'm saving leans.
Second verse
Now you can have your great big northern town, Your city ways, And problem plays, They're just a bunch of worries, cares and frowns, In cabarets The nights are days, I'd rather be in Dixie, where I can rough it in the good old country style, And when I get back there, I'll breath that air, and change my wrinkles to a smile.
(Chorus)
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