When Old Bill Bailey Plays the Ukalele [sic]/ music by Nat. Vincent; words by Chas Mc Carron

Authors

Nat. Vincent
Chas McCarron
Broadway Music Corporation (New York)

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ISBN

MUM00682, 0147

Description

Cover: drawing of and African American male playing a ukulele, while two Caucasian females peer out through the rushes (see 551); Publisher: Broadway Music Corporation (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

Finding Aid

https://egrove.olemiss.edu/finding_aids/322

Lyrics

Lyrics:
First verse
In Honolulu town, a man known miles around Has turned things upside down They call him Old Bill Bailey Bill Bailey won his fame with his old guitar Ukalele is it's name in that land a far The ships way out at sea Can hear his melody.
Chorus
When Old Bill Bailey plays the Ukalele Down in Honolula they do the hula Hula, Ev'ry evening there they are, swayin' while he's playin' his Hawaiian guitar The ragtime motion even has the ocean bobbin' up and down, Sometimes a whale gets feeling flip Wags his tail and sinks a battle ship When Old Bill Bailey plays the Ukalele Down in Honolulu town. When Old Bill Bailey plays the Ukalele Down in Honolula they do the Hula Hula, Ev'ry evening there they are, swayin' while he's playin' his Hawaiian guitar The ragtime motion even has the ocean bobbin' up and down, Sometimes a whale gets feeling flip Wags his tail and sinks a battle ship When Old Bill Bailey plays the Ukalele Down in Honolulu town.
Second verse
Some Suffragettes went down, to Honolulu town Among those gals of brown They tried a Suffrage Movement The meetings that they held never lasted long Old Bill Bailey broke them up when he played a song, For Suffrage they don't care There's other move ments there.
(Chorus)

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