SEPTEMBER 2000


(We'll Stroll Through
The Park) Just As We
Used To Do

Year 1919
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Words by Lew Brown & Ed Moran
Music by Roy Ingraham

Broadway Music Corporation
145 W. 45th St.
New York, NY.

First Verse
Mabel used to worry, Mabel used to pout, she said, "Oh! will my
darling Jack be the same when he gets back." Mabel got a
cable, now Mabel doesn't doubt, it read "My dear, I'm
leaving here, my program's all mapped out."

Second Verse
Mabel swept the parlor, brought it up to date, she fixed the
sofa where it would be in a place where none could see. Mabel
now is nervous for she can hardly wait she wrote to Jack,
said "Hurry back I think your plans are great."

Chorus
We'll stroll through the park just as we used to do we'll go
for a lark just as we used to do we'll sit in the parlor and
turn the lights down low right on my knee is where you'll
be and oh! oh! oh! we'll hug and squeeze just as we used to
do; we'll kiss and tease, just as we used to do your dad will
yell, "turn up that light," and what else can we do, we'll
have to kiss and say "Good night" just as we used to do.




Underneath Hawaiian Skies

Year 1920
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Words by Ernie Erdman
Music by Fred Rose

Leo Feist Inc.
Feist Building
New York

First Verse
Where the tropic breezes play, where the palm trees bend
and sway, there a lonely maiden sighs, underneath
Hawaiian skies. Every night beneath the moon, you can hear
a lonesome croon, calling out across the bay, to her lover far
away.

Second Verse
Moonbeams kiss the silvry sand, where they wandered, hand
in hand, tears be-dim two soft brown eyes, underneath
Hawaiian skies. Sweet Hawaiian melodies, bring to her fond
memories, of a love that used to be, as she calls across the sea.

Chorus
Come back to the shores of Honolulu, I'm so lonely here without
you, underneath Hawaiian skies, tell me am I waiting all in vain,
dear? say you're coming back again dear, to a land that's
paradise. (Can't you hear me calling?) Come back where each
tiny star that twinkles, and each steel guitar that tinkles
breathes of love that never dies; sometime I just know you'll be
returning, to a heart that's always yearning, underneath
Hawaiian skies.





By The Sapphire Sea

Year 1922
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Words by Harry B. Smith &
Francis Wheeler
Music by Ted Snyder

Waterson, Berlin & Snyder Co.
Strand Theater Building
New York

First Verse
Somewhere over there by the Sapphire Sea, the whispering palm
tress are calling me; to skies ever blue, there alone with you, is
where I am longing to be. The world we'll forget and your lips
and eyes, will show me the way to love's paradise, to that land of
summertime far away, I'm going to take you someday.

Second Verse
On that sunny island, the roses rare, are blooming to give us a
welcome there; and we'll be alone, in a world our own, forgetting
all trouble and care. We'll watch by the sea while the sails go by,
till the stars shine above in the evening sky, you'll rest in my
arms while the moon beams bright, and dream through the
midsummer night.

Chorus
Merrily we'll sail upon the Sapphire Sea, to a little isle where
happy we will be where moon beams bright, kiss you each night
beside the silver waves we'll be together. While the stars are
shining through the waving palms, sweetheart, I will hold you
in my loving arms and life will seem, just like a dream, with
you beside the Sapphire Sea.





Kisses (The Sweetest
Kisses Of All)

Year 1918
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Words by Alex Sullivan
Music by Lynn Cowan

McCarthy & Fischer, Inc.
224 W. 46th Street
New York City

First Verse
Ever since the world began, kisses have been tempting man,
though the kisses have helped to make history it's funny
different they can be.

Second Verse
Every one just love to kiss, every lad and every miss, though
many are bashful, we know, it's true, they love their hugs and
kisses too.

Chorus
There's the kiss that you get from baby, there's the kiss that
you get from dad, there's the kiss that you get from mother,
that's the first real kiss you had, there's the kiss of a tender
meeting, other kisses you recall, but the kisses I get from
you sweetheart, are the sweetest kisses of all.




Bring Back
Those Wonderful Days

Year 1919
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Words by Darl Mac Boyle
Music by Nat Vincent

Gilbert & Friedland Inc.
232 West 46th Street
New York City

First Verse
You've heard of the lamp of Aladdin what wonderful things it
could do if I had it today, I'd rub it and say here's all that I want
of you, Oh won't you

Second Verse
That wonderful lamp of the fable brought jewels and treasures
galore if Aladdin lived now, I feel that somehow these are the
things he'd ask for, Oh won't you

Chorus 1
Bring back those happy days of childhood, won't you bring back
the lane down in the wildwood that would lead us to the dear old
swimming pool everytime that we played hooky on the way to
school, oh, bring back the simple girls in gingham, won't you
bring back the good old songs and sing 'em what a joy 'twould be
both for you and me could we bring back those wonderful days.

Chorus 2
Bring back the dinners for a quarter, won't you bring back the
milk without the water and the great big thick and tender
juicy steaks long before our limit was a tack of victr'y cakes oh,
bring back the eggs at ten a dozen won't you bring back the bread
that wheat once was in you can laugh and joke but we're all dead
broke, won't you bring back those wonderful days.

Chorus 3
Bring back the pantomimes of Hanlon, won't you bring back the
lullabies of Scanlon and the friends who always take you out and
treat and the janitors who used to give us lots of heat, oh, bring
back the days before the "Gimmies" won't you bring back the
dance without the "Shimmies" drinking ginger ale makes us
weak and pale won't you bring back those wonderful days.




Waves of the Ocean
   Galop de Salon

Year 1888 ?
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By Charles D. Blake

Eclipse Publishing Co.
136 N. 9th Street
Philadelphia, PA.

 

 



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