Pick Me Up and Lay Me Down in Dear Old Dixieland / words by Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby

Authors

Bert Kalmar
Harry Ruby
Waterson Berlin and Snyder Co. (New York)

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ISBN

MUM00682, 0248

Description

Cover: drawings of images of cotton and a riverboat; Publisher: Waterson Berlin and Snyder Co. (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
One day I watched a flock of whippoorwhills, As they flew to their homes across the hills; They were merrily flying, To the south I knew And I couldn't help crying; Take me there with you!
Chorus
Pick me up, and lay me down in dear old Dixieland, The sun shines there each morn That's where the sun was born. My heart's been all wrapped up in that land of magic charms Carry me back to someone's empty arms. Keep those darkies singing, till I get back; To that ivy clinging ramshackle shack. Pick me up just like my mammy; lead me by the hand, And lay me down in dear old Dixieland. Pick me up, and lay me down in dear old Dixieland, The sun shines there each morn That's where the sun was born. My heart's been all wrapped up in that land of magic charms Carry me back to someone's empty arms. Keep those darkies singing, till I get back; To that ivy clinging ramshackle shack. Pick me up just like my mammy; lead me by the hand, And lay me down in dear old Dixieland.
Second verse
- Bring me down there beneath the southern sky, Sing me one little Dixie lullabye; There's a candle light burning, Down old Dixie way Tell the folks that I'm yearning, For them night and day.
(Chorus)

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