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Title: The Americans come!
First Line: (Spoken: A blinded Frenchman speaks to his son:) "What is the cheering, my little one?
Chorus:
Music by: Foster, Fay.
Words by: Wilbur, Elizabeth A.
P/P/D: New York and Birmingham : J. Fischer & Bro., c1918.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: Anti-loafin' blues.
First Line: You little mama's joy, I mean exempted boy
Chorus: You've got to go to jail, or wear some working shoes
Music by: Pinkard, Maceo.
Words by: Pinkard, Maceo.
P/P/D: New York : Jos. W. Stern & Co., c1918.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: At the Dixie military ball.
First Line: A line's been formin' since half past three,
Chorus: Look out, here comes Stonewall Grant doin' the tango with his big fat aunt
Music by: Carroll, Harry.
Words by: MacDonald, Ballard.
P/P/D: New York : Shapiro, Bernstein & Co., c1918.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: Bring me a rose.
First Line: I remember the time when I first fell in love
Chorus: Bring me a rose at twilight, kissed by the sparkling dew
Music by: Shisler, Charles.
Words by: Shisler, Charles.
P/P/D: New York : Kalmar Puck & Abrahams Consolidated, Inc., c1918.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: Come on papa.
First Line: Sweet Marie, in gay Paree, had a motor car
Chorus: "Come on papa, hop in ze motor car
Music by: Ruby, Harry, and Edgar Leslie.
Words by: Ruby, Harry, and Edgar Leslie.
P/P/D: New York : Waterson, Berlin & Snyder Co., c1918.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: Dear little boy of mine.
First Line: Oft when I'm lonely my memory swings back to your baby days
Chorus: Boy of mine, boy of mine, altho' my heart was aching
Music by: Ball, Ernest R.
Words by: Brennan, J. Keirn.
P/P/D: New York : M. Witmark & Sons, c1918.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: Dear old pal of mine.
First Line: All my life is empty, since I went away, skies don't seem to be so clear, may some angel sentry, guard you while I stray
Chorus: Oh, how I want you dear old pal of mine, each night and day I pray you're always mine
Music by: Rice, Gitz Lieut.
Words by: Robe, Harold.
P/P/D: New York : G. Ricordi & Co., Inc., c1918.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: Don't cry, little girl, don't cry.
First Line: Why are you looking so sad sweetheart, your heart is breaking it seems
Chorus: Don't cry, little girl, don't cry
Music by: Pinkard, Maceo.
Words by: Pinkard, Maceo.
P/P/D: New York : Shapiro, Bernstein & Co, c1918.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: Ev'ry day.
First Line: I'm so lonely, I'm so blue
Chorus: Ev'ry day, I want you every day
Music by: Brooks, Shelton.
Words by: Williams, W. R.
P/P/D: Chicago : Will Rossiter, c1918.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: Ev'rybody's crazy 'bout the doggone blues but I'm happy.
First Line: Blues ain't nothin' but the easy goin' heart disease
Chorus: Everybody's crazy 'bout the dog gone blues, but I'm happy
Music by: Creamer and Layton.
Words by: Creamer and Layton.
P/P/D: New York : Broadway Music Corp., c1918.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: For the two of us.
First Line: I know a boy and a girl who are feeling, oh! so grand.
Chorus: For the two of us, there's a June honeymoon, for the two of us, happy days
Music by: Ruby, Harry.
Words by: Leslie, Edgar.
P/P/D: New York : Waterson, Berlin & Snyder Co., c1918.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: Hello central, give me no man's land [Incomplete].
First Line: When the gray shadows creep, and the world is asleep
Chorus: Hello central, give me no man's land, my daddy's there, my mamma told me
Music by: Schwartz, Jean.
Words by: Lewis, Sam M., and Joe Young.
P/P/D: New York : Waterson, Berlin & Snyder Co., c1918.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: Honey-dear.
First Line: In the twilight after day is done
Chorus: Honey dear, honey dear, that is all that I can hear
Music by: Owen, Anita.
Words by: Owen, Anita.
P/P/D: New York and Detroit : Jerome H. Remick & Co., c1918.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: I'm sorry I made you cry.
First Line: Dear little girl, have I made you sad?
Chorus: I'm sorry, dear, so sorry, dear, I'm sorry I made you cry!
Music by: Clesi, N. J.
Words by: Clesi, N. J.
P/P/D: New York : Leo Feist Inc., c1918.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: I'm too tired to make love.
First Line: "Look here Sam," said Lizzie Epps
Chorus: From six in the morning 'till half-past nine
Music by: Creamer and Layton.
Words by: Creamer and Layton.
P/P/D: New York : Broadway Music Corp., c1918.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: In the land of beginning again (where broken dreams come true).
First Line: Sometimes there're tears behind a sunny smile
Chorus: There's a land of beginning again
Music by: Meyer, George W.
Words by: Clarke, Grant.
P/P/D: New York : Leo Feist Inc., c1918.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: It makes no diff'rence whose sweetie you were (you're my sweet sweetie now).
First Line: I strayed into a Darktown club one night a week ago
Chorus: It makes no diff'rence whose sweetie you were, you're my sweet sweetie now
Music by: Vincent, Nat, and Frank Stilwell.
Words by: Vincent, Nat, and Frank Stilwell.
P/P/D: New York : Shapiro, Bernstein & Co Inc., c1918.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: Ja-da (Ja da, ja da, jing jing jing!).
First Line: You've heard all about your raggy melodies
Chorus: Ja da, ja da, ja da, ja da, jing jing jing!
Music by: Carleton, Bob.
Words by: Carleton, Bob.
P/P/D: New York : Leo Feist Inc., c1918.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: Jazzin' the blues away.
First Line: Mister let me tell you this is no place to be
Chorus: Down to the hall down to that Ebony ball
Music by: Heinrich, Dick.
Words by: Branen, Jeff.
P/P/D: New York and Cleveland : A. J. Stasney Music Co., c1918.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: Just a baby's prayer at twilight.
First Line: I've heard the pray'rs of mothers, some of them old and gray
Chorus: Just a baby's pray'r at twilight, when lights are low
Music by: Jerome, M. K.
Words by: Lewis, Sam M., and Joe Young.
P/P/D: New York : Waterson, Berlin and Snyder Co., c1918.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: Lonesome blues.
First Line: Want some one to love me, want some one to hug me
Chorus: Woke up this morning feeling awfully blue
Music by: Bradford, Perry.
Words by: Bradford, Perry.
P/P/D: New York : Frederick V. Bowers Inc., c1918.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: Mammy's chocolate soldier.
First Line: Pickaninny cute in his khaki suit
Chorus: Come and lay your kinkey head on Mammy's shoulder
Music by: Gottler, Archie.
Words by: Mitchell, Sidney D.
P/P/D: New York : Waterson, Berlin and Snyder Co., c1918.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: Mickey.
First Line: Oh what a shame they gave you the name of Mickey. Where is the rose that grows in repose like you
Chorus: Mickey, pretty Mickey with your hair of raven hue
Music by: Moret, Neil.
Words by: Williams, Harry.
P/P/D: San Francisco : Daniels & Wilson, Inc., c1918.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: Minnie, shimme for me.
First Line: Big Sam Green had a queen; a regular dance hall houn'
Chorus: Minnie, shimmie for me
Music by: Lucas, Jimmy.
Words by: Frisch, Billy.
P/P/D: New York : Broadway Music Corp., c1918.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: My gran'ma.
First Line: Cousin Johnnie claims my gran'ma for his gran'ma too. But I think he ought to get one where I got mine don't you?
Chorus:
Music by: Fergus, Phyllis.
Words by: Price, Natalie Whitted.
P/P/D: S.l. : Clayton F. Summy Co., c1918.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: My Hawaiian rose.
First Line: On an island fair where the flowers rare with their fragrance fills the balmy air
Chorus: Each gentle breeze brings me memories of my sweet Hawaiian rose
Music by: Henshel, James.
Words by: Bolian, Waltar.
P/P/D: Detroit and New York : Jerome H. Remick & Co., c1918.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: My honey's back.
First Line: I've felt so blue and all lonesome too, ever since my honey went away
Chorus: My honey's back, I'm all excited
Music by: Getsey, Geo.
Words by: Thompson, Moe.
P/P/D: New York : Leo Feist Inc., c1918.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: The Navy will bring them back!
First Line: "Over there" we hear of heroes, who've been fighting for you and me
Chorus: On the sea, we've other heroes, too
Music by: Schuster, Ira.
Words by: Johnson, Howard.
P/P/D: New York : Leo Feist Inc., c1918.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: Oh! how I hate to get up in the morning.
First Line: The other day I chanced to meet a soldier friend of mine
Chorus: "Oh! how I hate to get up in the morning
Music by: Berlin, Irving.
Words by: Berlin, Irving.
P/P/D: New York : Waterson, Berlin & Snyder Co., c1918.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: Oh! how I wish I could sleep until my daddy comes home.
First Line: "Early to bed, early to rise," I heard a mother say to her angel eyes
Chorus: Oh! how I wish I could sleep, until my daddy comes home;
Music by: Wendling, Pete.
Words by: Lewis, Sam M., and Joe Young.
P/P/D: New York : Waterson Berlin & Snyder Co., c1918.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: Oui, oui, Marie.
First Line: Poor Johnny's heart went pity, pity, pat, somewhere in sunny France.
Chorus: Oui, oui, Marie, will you do zis for me oui, oui, Marie, then I'll do zat for you
Music by: Fischer, Fred.
Words by: Bryan, Alfred, and Joe McCarthy.
P/P/D: New York : McCarthy & Fischer Inc., c1918.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: Our yesterdays.
First Line: The world moves along with it's sorrow and song
Chorus:
Music by: Leslie, Herbert.
Words by: Lake, Francis.
P/P/D: Chicago : Forster Music Pub. Inc., c1918.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: Out of the East.
First Line: Pale moon in the eastern sky look down where the Arabs lie
Chorus: Oriental maiden be my jewel laden Princess all array'd in glory
Music by: Rosey, Joe.
Words by: Havez, Jean.
P/P/D: Detroit and New York : Jerome H. Remick & Co., c1918.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: The pickaninnies paradise.
First Line: What's the matter Honey there's a tear in your eye
Chorus: You lay your black kinky head in a bed on a pillow of white
Music by: Osborne, Nat.
Words by: Ehrlich, Sam.
P/P/D: New York, Chicago, Frisco, Sidney and London : Harry Von Tilzer Music Publishing Co., c1918.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: The rose of "no man's land."
First Line: I've seen some beautiful flowers, grow in life's garden fair
Chorus: There's a rose that grows on "no man's land" and it's wonderful
Music by: Caddigan, Jack, and James A. Brennan.
Words by: Caddigan, Jack, and James A. Brennan.
P/P/D: New York : Leo. Feist, c1918.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: Sally of my dreams.
First Line: Looking thru the skylight. Watching the clouds go by
Chorus: Sweet Sally, Sally of my dreams
Music by: Kernell, William.
Words by: Kernell, William.
P/P/D: New York : De Sylva, Brown and Henderson, Inc., c1918.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: Since my gal is gone I've got the blues.
First Line: My gal has left me all alone that's why I'm feeling blue
Chorus: Since my gal is gone I've got the blues
Music by: Silver, Abner.
Words by: Herman, Al. H.
P/P/D: New York : Joe Morris Music Co., c1918.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: The siren's song.
First Line: On as island far away, so the old world legends say,
Chorus: Come to us, we've waited so long for you
Music by: Kern, Jerome.
Words by: Wodehouse, P. G.
P/P/D: New York : T. B. Harms Co., c1918.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: Some lonesome night.
First Line: I've been hearing around, that you're throwing me down
Chorus: Some lonesome night, "Mister Blues" will get you
Music by: Meyer, Geo. W.
Words by: Clarke, Grant, and George Whiting.
P/P/D: New York : Leo Feist Inc., c1918.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: Sunrise and you.
First Line: Far in the East there's a soft, crimson glow
Chorus:
Music by: Penn, Arthur A.
Words by: Penn, Arthur A.
P/P/D: New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Boston and London : M. Witmark & Sons, c1918.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: Sweet n' pretty gee! I wish you were mine.
First Line: I've been looking around what do you think I found?
Chorus: Sweet n' pretty, sweet n' pretty
Music by: Creamer and Layton.
Words by: Creamer and Layton.
P/P/D: New York : Broadway Music Corp., c1918.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: That's what makes a wild cat wild.
First Line: Tennessee ought to be, dear to the lovers of harmony
Chorus: Hear that saxophone hum, oh!
Music by: Bennett, Theron C.
Words by: Norton, George A.
P/P/D: Denver, New York and San Francisco : Theron C. Bennett, c1918.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: When our boys come home again.
First Line: In a cottage, quaint and lowly, at the close of day
Chorus: When our boys come marching home again, dear
Music by: Huston, Frank C.
Words by: Huston, Frank C.
P/P/D: New York and Indianapolis : Frank C. Huston Co., c1918.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: When you come back.
First Line: From 'Frisco Bay to old Broadway, today all over the U. S. A.
Chorus: When you come back, yes when you come back, you'll hear the Yankee cry, "at a boy, Jack!"
Music by: Cohan, George M.
Words by: Cohan, George M.
P/P/D: New York : M. Witmark & Sons, c1918.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: When you look in the heart of a rose.
First Line: Deep in my heart I hold for you, a tender thought, so sweet and true, nobody knows but this little rose, I give you
Chorus: Dear little rose, with your heart of gold, dear little rose may your petals fold
Music by: Methven, Florence.
Words by: Gillespie, Marian.
P/P/D: New York : Leo. Feist, Inc., c1918.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: You can tell that he's an American.
First Line: How can you tell a soldier's rank or station? they look so much the same, how can you tell their names?
Chorus: You can tell that he's an Englishman, if he always wears a cane,
Music by: Wenrich, Percy.
Words by: Johnson, Howard.
P/P/D: New York : Leo. Feist, Inc., c1918.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: Your lips are no man's land but mine.
First Line: At a dock a transport was rocking, ev'ry chap from his cap to his stocking
Chorus: I'm coming back some day when the fray is over my darling
Music by: McCarron, Chas. R., and Carey Morgan.
Words by: Empey, Arthur Guy.
P/P/D: New York : Jos. W. Stern & Co., c1918.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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| ____________________ | 1919 | ____________________ |
Title: The alcoholic blues.
First Line: I love my country, 'deed I do,
Chorus: I've got the blues I've got the blues
Music by: Von Tilzer, Albert.
Words by: Laska, Edward.
P/P/D: New York : Broadway Music Corp., c1919.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: Alice Blue gown.
First Line: I once had a gown it was almost new
Chorus: In my sweet little Alice Blue gown
Music by: Tierney, Harry.
Words by: McCarthy, Joseph.
P/P/D: New York : Leo Feist Inc., c1919.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: And that ain't all.
First Line: There are times, there are times, when I feel so glad
Chorus: She's got a pair of lips that ask for lovin'
Music by: Stept, Sammy.
Words by: Green, Bud.
P/P/D: New York : Al Piantadosi & Co., Inc., c1919.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: At the high brown babies' ball.
First Line: Sweetie dear, there's a taxi waitin',
Chorus: When the band begins to play, ev'ry one will start to sway,
Music by: Davis, Benny, Erdman, and Ernie Erdman.
Words by: Davis, Benny, Erdman, and Ernie Erdman.
P/P/D: New York : Leo Feist Inc., c1919.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: Burmah moon.
First Line: 'Way out in the land of Temple Bells
Chorus: Burmah moon keep on shining on the old lagoon
Music by: Rice, Gitz.
Words by: Rice, Gitz.
P/P/D: New York City : Henry Burr Music Corp., c1919.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: 'Cause You're Dog Gone Sweet.
First Line: Dearie, you are always asking me the reason why I love you so and I really don't mind telling you, but it seems that you would know
Chorus: I love your lips, your fingertips
Music by: Lowe, Clifford E.
Words by: Lowe, Clifford E.
P/P/D: Terre Haute, IN : Clifford Lowe Music Pub. Co., c1919.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: Cheating.
First Line: I know that there is a change in your kissing
Chorus: You're cheating I know you're cheating
Music by: Fisher, Fred, and Sam Ehrlich.
Words by: Rogers, Howard.
P/P/D: New York : McCarthy & Fisher Inc., c1919.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: Dardanella.
First Line: Down beside the Dardanella Bay
Chorus: Oh, sweet Dardanella, I love your harem eyes
Music by: Bernard, Felix, and Johnny S. Black.
Words by: Fisher, Fred.
P/P/D: New York : McCarthy & Fisher Inc., c1919.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: Dear old Virginia home.
First Line: My childhood home Virginia I am dreaming now of you
Chorus: Dear old Virginia I dream of you
Music by: Friedman, Leo.
Words by: Johnson, Sidney U.
P/P/D: Chicago : North American Music Co., c1919.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: Freckles.
First Line: He was just a Kid, a little, red head pug-nosed Kid
Chorus: Freckles was his name, He always used to get the blame
Music by: Hess, Cliff, Milton Ager, and Howard Johnson.
Words by: Hess, Cliff, Milton Ager, and Howard Johnson.
P/P/D: New York : Leo. Feist, Inc., c1919.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: Good-bye, wild women, good-bye!
First Line: Oh, what a terrible blow, Congress said liquor must go
Chorus: After the country goes dry, good bye, wild women, good bye
Music by: Meyer, Geo. W.
Words by: Johnson, Howard, and Milton Ager.
P/P/D: New York : Leo Feist Inc., c1919.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: Hand in hand again.
First Line: There were tears in the hour that was darkest
Chorus: Ev'ry heart is lighter ev'ry smile is brighter
Music by: Whiting, Richard A.
Words by: Egan, Raymond B.
P/P/D: New York and Detroit : Jerome H. Remick & Co., c1919.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: He's had no lovin' for a long, long time.
First Line: Now that it's over and peace is declared, our nation is wild with joy
Chorus: Oh you know he's had no lovin' for a long, long time
Music by: Pinkard, Maceo.
Words by: Tracey, Wm.
P/P/D: New York : Broadway Music Corp., c1919.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: Honeymoon.
First Line: Dreamy June, all the world in tune
Chorus:
Music by: Arden, Victor.
Words by: Sherwood, Ray.
P/P/D: New York : Joseph W. Stern & Co., c1919.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: I am waiting for to-morrow to come.
First Line: My life is spent in naught but idle dreaming
Chorus: I am waiting for to-morrow to come, but to-morrow seems like years
Music by: Hawelka, F., and M. Prival.
Words by: Davis, Frank.
P/P/D: New York : A. J. Stasney Music Co., c1919.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: I gave her that.
First Line: Folks I want to ask you something. Have you seen my sweet?
Chorus: Did you see that pretty dress, say, I gave her that
Music by: de Sylva, Bud, and Al Jolson.
Words by: de Sylva, Bud, and Al Jolson.
P/P/D: New York : T. B. Harms & Francis, Day & Hunter, c1919.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: I used to call her Baby.
First Line: My father was a widower and we lived all alone
Chorus: I used to call her Baby, she seemed like a baby to me
Music by: Johnson, Howard, Roth, and Cliff Hess.
Words by: Johnson, Howard, Roth, and Cliff Hess.
P/P/D: New York : Leo Feist Inc., c1919.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: I'll dance my way right back to Dixieland.
First Line: What makes me feel so gay, what makes me feel so gay
Chorus: I'm goin' to start today and dance my way right back to Dixieland
Music by: Baskette, Billy.
Words by: Clarke, Grant.
P/P/D: New York : McCarthy & Fisher Inc., c1919.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: I'm forever blowing bubbles.
First Line: I'm dreaming dreams I'm scheming schemes
Chorus: I'm forever blowing bubbles pretty bubbles in the air
Music by: Kenbrovin, Jaan, and John William Kellette.
Words by: Kenbrovin, Jaan, and John William Kellette.
P/P/D: Detroit : Jerome H. Remick & Co., c1919.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: In room 202.
First Line: I've got a little story I will tell to you
Chorus: In room two hundred and two, the walls keep talking to you
Music by: Harris, Dave.
Words by: Leslie, Edgar, and Bert Kalmar.
P/P/D: New York : Waterson, Berlin & Snyder Co., c1919.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: In your arms.
First Line: When you're recalling sweethearts of old
Chorus: In your arms you'd fondly hold her
Music by: Glaser, Al.
Words by: Floyd, Elmer.
P/P/D: New York : Maurice Richmond Mucic Co. Inc., c1919.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: It's nobody's business but my own.
First Line: A delegation of deacons from a "hardshell" congregation on Parson Brown
Chorus: It's nobody's bus'ness but my own
Music by: Skidmore, Will E., and Marshall Walker.
Words by: Skidmore, Will E., and Marshall Walker.
P/P/D: New York : Jos. W. Stern & Co., c1919.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: I've got a grand baby with a baby grand way down in Dixieland.
First Line: Down in Dixie where the cotton's growing
Chorus: I've got a grand baby with a baby grand way down in Dixieland
Music by: Dixon, Harold.
Words by: Brown, Truman L.
P/P/D: Chicago and St. Louis : Dixon-Lane Pub. Co., c1919.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: I've got my captain working for me now.
First Line: Johnny Jones was a first class private in the army last year
Chorus: I've got my guy who used to be my captain working for me now
Music by: Berlin, Irving.
Words by: Berlin, Irving.
P/P/D: New York : Irving Berlin, Inc., c1919.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: I've got the cryin' blues.
First Line: Just like a baby I'm crying, crying 'cause I feel so sad
Chorus: I've got the cryin' blues I've got the sighin' blues
Music by: Squires, Harry D.
Words by: Freedman, Max C.
P/P/D: New York and Detroit : Jerome H. Remick & Co., c1919.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: I've got the shimmee blues.
First Line: Look at me and you'll see somebody as blue as blue can be
Chorus: 'Cause I've got an awful case of "Shimmee" blues
Music by: DeCosta, Harry.
Words by: DeCosta, Harry.
P/P/D: New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Boston and London : M. Witmark & Sons, c1919.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: Jazz baby.
First Line: My daddy was a ragtime trombone player
Chorus:
Music by: Jerome, M. K.
Words by: Merrill, Blanche.
P/P/D: New York : Waterson, Berlin & Snyder Co., c1919.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: Love sends a little gift of roses.
First Line: Take thou my gift, my offering of roses
Chorus: Love sends a little gift of roses, breathing a pray'r unto my posies
Music by: Openshaw, John.
Words by: Cooke, Leslie.
P/P/D: New York : Harms, Inc., c1919.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: Maybe that's why I love you.
First Line: You want to know why I love you
Chorus: Why does the bee love the flower?
Music by: Huston, Frank C.
Words by: Callahan, J. Will.
P/P/D: Indianapolis : The Frank C. Huston Co., c1919.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: Me-ow.
First Line: Joe Brown's wife was lonesome and blue
Chorus: All night long Angora sang his song, me-ow, me-ow
Music by: Kaufman, Mel B.
Words by: Kerr, Harry D.
P/P/D: Cleveland : Sam Fox Pub. Co., c1919.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: The music of wedding chimes.
First Line: Life is just a song, just a song to me
Chorus: There is music when a band is playing
Music by: Wendling, Pete.
Words by: Leslie, Edgar.
P/P/D: New York : Waterson, Berlin & Snyder Co., c1919.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: My Barney lies over the ocean (just the way he lied to me).
First Line: Barney Carey promised he'd be true to Molly O
Chorus: "My Barney lies over the ocean, My Barney lies over the sea
Music by: Grant, Bert.
Words by: Young, Joe, and Sam M. Lewis.
P/P/D: Waterson, Berlin & Snyder Co. :, c1919.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: My isle of golden dreams.
First Line: Out of the mist, lips I have kissed, call tenderly
Chorus:
Music by: Blaufuss, Walter.
Words by: Kahn, Gus.
P/P/D: New York and Detroit : Jerome H. Remick & Co., c1919.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: Mystery!
First Line:
Chorus: Have you heard, have you heard, have you heard
Music by: Cirina, Joseph A.
Words by: Johnson, Howard.
P/P/D: New York : Leo Feist Inc., c1919.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: Oh! what a pal was Mary.
First Line: Mary o' mine, Mary o' mine, grew like a rose in a bower
Chorus: Oh! what a gal was Mary, Oh! what a pal was she
Music by: Wendling, Pete.
Words by: Leslie, Edgar, and Bert Kalmar.
P/P/D: New York : Waterson Berlin & Snyder Co., c1919.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: Patches.
First Line: This morning at dawning I had a dream
Chorus: Wearing patches, a barefoot boy in patches
Music by: Roberts, Lee S.
Words by: Callahan, J. Will.
P/P/D: New York and Boston : G. Schirmer, c1919.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: A pretty girl is like a melody.
First Line: I have an ear for music, and I have an eye for a maid I link a pretty girlie, with each pretty tune that's played.
Chorus: A pretty girl is like a melody that haunts you night and day
Music by: Berlin, Irving.
Words by: Berlin, Irving.
P/P/D: New York : Irving Berlin Inc., c1919.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: Ragging the chopsticks.
First Line: You've heard "chopsticks," plain old "chopsticks" play'd by ev'ry kid
Chorus:
Music by: Gottler, Archie, and Abe Frankl.
Words by: Gottler, Archie.
P/P/D: New York : Leo Feist Inc., c1919.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: Remember the girl in your old home town.
First Line: Yank over there you should always beware of the girlie from gay Paree
Chorus: Remember the girl in your old home town
Music by: Hollis, C. E.
Words by: Crosley, Ret.
P/P/D: Terre Haute and Chicago : Ret Crosley, c1919.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: The red lantern (shine on red lantern).
First Line: The Chinese tell a story that's full of mystic glory
Chorus: Shine on red lantern, through the gloomy night
Music by: Fisher, Fred.
Words by: Fisher, Fred.
P/P/D: New York : McCarthy & Fisher Inc., c1919.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: Romance.
First Line: Sweet and low in the evening glow, comes the song of birds from swaying boughs above
Chorus:
Music by: David, Lee.
Words by: David, Lee.
P/P/D: New York City : B. D. Nice & Co., Inc., c1919.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: Rose of my dreams.
First Line: I've often heard of dream girls who live in gardens fair
Chorus: I'm in love I'm in love I'm in love with the rose of my dreams
Music by: Swan, Fred C.
Words by: Swan, Fred C.
P/P/D: Boston : D. W. Cooper Music Co., c1919.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: Slow and easy.
First Line: Oh! honey dear, my honey dear, I hear those dog gone "blues"
Chorus: But take it slow and easy, if you want to go with me
Music by: Spencer, Norman.
Words by: Williams, Harry.
P/P/D: New York : Waterson Berlin and Snyder Co., c1919.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: Slow Town is Jazz Town now.
First Line: In a town where the curfew bell would ring
Chorus: All the trees are swayin' when the breeze begins a playin'
Music by: Goodman, Alfred.
Words by: Grossman, Bernard, and George Yoerger.
P/P/D: New York : Leo Feist Inc., c1919.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: Smile through your tears.
First Line: Dear eyes, downcast, that fill my soul with longing
Chorus: Smile through your tears, as sunlight smiles through rain
Music by: Hamblen, Bernard.
Words by: Hamblen, Bernard.
P/P/D: New York : Chappell-Harms, Inc., c1919.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: Smilin' through.
First Line: There's a little brown road windin' over the hill
Chorus:
Music by: Penn, Arthur A.
Words by: Penn, Arthur A.
P/P/D: New York : M. Witmark & Sons, c1919.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: Someday down in Carolin'.
First Line: The stars are shining in the skies
Chorus: Caroline, twilight time, seems to set my heart awearyin'
Music by: Green, Geo. Hamilton.
Words by: Egan, Ray.
P/P/D: Chicago : Ted Browne Music Co., c1919.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: Somewhere in some corner of the world.
First Line: What makes you sigh when you're alone?
Chorus: Somewhere in some corner of the world, someone waits all alone for you
Music by: Nicholls, Horatio.
Words by: David, Worton.
P/P/D: London : The Lawrence Wright Music Co., c1919.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: Swanee.
First Line: I've been away from you a long time
Chorus: Swanee Swanee I am coming back to you
Music by: Gershwin, George.
Words by: Caesar, I.
P/P/D: New York : T. B. Harms; Francis, Day & Hunter, c1919.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: Sweet and low.
First Line: Sweet and low sweet and low, soft evening breeze
Chorus:
Music by: Johnson, Charles L.
Words by: Royce, James Stanley.
P/P/D: Chicago : Forster Music Publisher Inc., c1919.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: Sweeter than sugar (is my sweetie).
First Line: Listen to me listen to me I've got a whole lot to say
Chorus: Sweeter than sugar is my sweetie
Music by: Berlin, Irving.
Words by: Berlin, Irving.
P/P/D: New York : Irving Berlin, Inc., c1919.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: Taxi.
First Line: One evening while dining, where Broadway lights are shining
Chorus: Taxi (whistle) none anywhere, taxi (whistle) I've got a fare
Music by: Kaufman, Mel B.
Words by: Kerr, Harry D.
P/P/D: Cleveland : Sam Fox Pub. Co., c1919.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: The temptation blues.
First Line: Ev'ry morn, just at dawn, I'm forlorn something's wrong
Chorus: I've got those cruel, sinful temptation blues
Music by: Barbour, J. Berni.
Words by: Barbour, J. Berni.
P/P/D: Indianapolis : Seidel Music Pub. Co. Inc., c1919.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: When a feller needs a friend.
First Line: Do you remember when you were a kid?
Chorus: When a feller needs a friend, someone with a cheery smile
Music by: Stern, Jos W., Jr., and Billy Frisch.
Words by: Grossman, Bernie.
P/P/D: New York : Jos W. Stern & Co., c1919.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: When Uncle Sam will clear the sea.
First Line: Far o'er the ocean by the millions
Chorus: When the stars and stripes will be unfurled
Music by: Walz, Jean.
Words by: Davis and Barrett.
P/P/D: Terre Haute : The D. & B. Music House, c1919.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: While we drift along.
First Line: Hear the song of the birds in the trees
Chorus: Drifting 'neath the moonbeams in our ship of love
Music by: Squires, Harry D.
Words by: Freedman, Max C.
P/P/D: New York : Joe Morris Music Co., c1919.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: Why do they call 'em wild women?
First Line: I've been around the ladies, the small and grown up babies
Chorus: Why do they call 'em wild women, wild women, wild women
Music by: Frisch, Billy.
Words by: Grossman, Bernie, and Ben Russell.
P/P/D: New York : Jos. W. Stern & Co., c1919.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: The world is waiting for the sunrise.
First Line: Down in the lazy west rides the moon
Chorus:
Music by: Seitz, Ernest.
Words by: Lockhart, Eugene.
P/P/D: Melbourne, Londodn, and Sidney; New York : Chappell & Co Ltd.;Chappell-Harms, Inc., c1919.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: At the last barbers' ball.
First Line: Joe the barba man ten a years he give a ball
Chorus: At the ball at the ball at the last barber's ball
Music by: De Socio, Robert.
Words by: De Socio, Robert.
P/P/D: New York : Circle Music Pub. Co., c1920.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: Bells.
First Line: Very many years ago, Mister Edgar Allen Poe, wrote a little poem I know, called "Bells"
Chorus: Phone bells, sleigh bells, and very merry Christmas day bells
Music by: Berlin, Irving.
Words by: Berlin, Irving.
P/P/D: New York City : Irving Berlin, Inc., c1920.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: Bound in Morocco.
First Line: Where sweet scented perfume breezes blow, so gayly
Chorus: Some night, when the eastern moon's rising, I'll be bound for Morocco
Music by: Herscher, Louis.
Words by: Herscher, Louis.
P/P/D: New York : Leo Feist, Inc., c1920.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: Braziliana.
First Line: When the shades of night begin to fall and magic music fills the air,
Chorus: My Braziliana maiden wants me
Music by: Dixon, Harold.
Words by: Dixon, Harold.
P/P/D: St. Louis, Chicago, and Atlanta : Dixon- Lane Pub. Co., c1920.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: The broadway blues.
First Line: When you hear your feet, echo in the street
Chorus: When your heart is aching for the trees
Music by: Morgan, Carey.
Words by: Swanstrom, Arthur.
P/P/D: New York : Irving Berlin Inc., c1920.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: Chasin' the blues.
First Line: I just heard of a new dance, right from Honky Tonk Town
Chorus: Bring your baby close up to your side, fall into a slow easy stride
Music by: Green, Bud, Al. Bernard, and Al. Piantadosi.
Words by: Green, Bud, Al. Bernard, and Al. Piantadosi.
P/P/D: New York City : Al. Pantiosi & Co. Inc., c1920.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: Chinese firecrackers.
First Line: Charlie Younge lay smoking on his bunk one night
Chorus: Hop Toy, Ming Foy, Sing Goy, Ung Loy, Suey Pow, Yen-shee Gow Main
Music by: Berlin, Irving.
Words by: Berlin, Irving.
P/P/D: New York : Irving Berlin Inc., c1920.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: Ching-a Ling's jazz bazaar.
First Line: Ching Ling Far owns a bazaar, way down in Chinatown
Chorus: Down to Ching-a Ling-a Ling-Ling's china jazz bazaar
Music by: Bridges, Ethel.
Words by: Johnson, Howard.
P/P/D: New York : Leo. Feist Inc., c1920.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: Cotton (Cotton was a little Dixie rose).
First Line: Cotton fields remind me of a story I once heard, and now as I recall it, I remember ev'ry word;
Chorus: Cotton, folks all hugged and kissed him, Cotton, ev'rybody missed him;
Music by: Rose, Fred.
Words by: Little, Geo. A.
P/P/D: New York : M. Witman & Sons, c1920.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: Hold me.
First Line: I must confess that I like you but there is something a miss
Chorus: Hold me fold me right in your arms
Music by: Hickman, Art, and Ben Black.
Words by: Hickman, Art, and Ben Black.
P/P/D: San Francisco; New York and Detroit : Sherman, Clay & Co.; Jerome H. Remick & Co., c1920.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: Hop skip and jump.
First Line: There's a tune that's got me going, a tune that starts a flowing
Chorus: It keeps a running thru my brain, until I nearly go insane
Music by: Dyson, Hal.
Words by: Weslyn, Louis.
P/P/D: New York : Jos. W. Stern & Co., c1920.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: Hunika (a Hawaiian lullaby).
First Line: Oh, how I, how I am sighing for that old Hawaiian shore
Chorus: Hunika sweet Hunika how I love my Hunika,
Music by: Fisher, Fred, and Johnny S. Black.
Words by: Fisher, Fred, and Johnny S. Black.
P/P/D: New York : Fred Fisher Inc., c1920.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: I want a good, big hearted man.
First Line: I am looking for a good hearted man
Chorus: I want a man a good big hearted man
Music by: Sullivan, William A.
Words by: Sullivan, William A.
P/P/D: Chicago : Weaver & Harrison Music Publishers, c1920.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: Idle dreams.
First Line: Beside an idol carved of stone, a China boy sits all alone
Chorus: Come on my China maid, I call you from your throne of jade
Music by: Gershwin, George.
Words by: Jackson, Arthur.
P/P/D: New York : T.B. Harms and Francis, Day & Hunter, c1920.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: I'll be with you when the clouds roll by.
First Line: Raindrops raindrops falling from above seems that each one tells its tale of love
Chorus: I'll be with you when the clouds roll by as they drift along away up high
Music by: Kuhn, Robert, Paul Kuhn, and Charles Kuhn.
Words by: Kuhn, Robert, Paul Kuhn, and Charles Kuhn.
P/P/D: New York and Detroit : Jerome H. Remick & Co., c1920.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: I'll see you in Cuba.
First Line: Not so far from here, there's a lively atmosphere, ev'rybody's going there this year
Chorus: Cuba there's where I'm going, Cuba there's where I'll stay
Music by: Berlin, Irving.
Words by: Berlin, Irving.
P/P/D: New York : Irving Berlin, Inc., c1920.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: I'm wild about moonshine.
First Line: Today I met a colored girl named Susan Anna Gray
Chorus: I've gone wild I'm wild about moonshine, I'm crazy 'bout moonshine
Music by: Creamer and Layton.
Words by: Creamer and Layton.
P/P/D: New York, Chicago and Toronto : Chas. K. Harris, c1920.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: In old Manila.
First Line: Take me where the silver moon is beaming
Chorus: In old Manila down beside the moonlit bay
Music by: Earl, Mary.
Words by: Earl, Mary.
P/P/D: New York : Shapiro, Bernstein & Co. Inc., c1920.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: It seems like ages and ages and you've only been gone a day.
First Line: Your voice I hear, you seem so near, still you are far, far away
Chorus: It seems like ages and ages, and you've only been gone a day
Music by: Kendis & Brockman.
Words by: Kendis & Brockman.
P/P/D: New York City : Kendis- Brockman Music Co., c1920.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: The Japanese sandman.
First Line: Won't you stretch imagination for the moment and come with me
Chorus: Here's the Japanese sandman sneaking on with the dew
Music by: Whiting, Richard A.
Words by: Egan, Raymond B.
P/P/D: New York and Detroit : Jerome H. Remick & Co., c1920.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: Keep your eyes down Mary you're a big girl now.
First Line: Sweet Mary Brown on graduation day forgot each word she was supposed to say
Chorus: Just keep your eyes down Mary
Music by: Blick, Raymond C., Raymond B. Egan, and Richard A. Whiting.
Words by: Blick, Raymond C., Raymond B. Egan, and Richard A. Whiting.
P/P/D: New York and Detroit : Jerome H. Remick & Co., c1920.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: Laughing vamp.
First Line: You have heard about the dreadful vampires of today
Chorus: Smile with me just a little bit
Music by: Vincent, Nat, Billy Baskette, Billy Frisch, Bernie Grossman, Will Donaldson, Sam Ehrlich, Leon Flatow, Bobby Jones, Al. Siegal, and Jimmie Brown.
Words by: Vincent, Nat, Billy Baskette, Billy Frisch, Bernie Grossman, Will Donaldson, Sam Ehrlich, Leon Flatow, Bobby Jones, Al. Siegal, and Jimmie Brown.
P/P/D: Chicago : Will Rossiter, c1920.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: Lola (my Brazilian maid).
First Line: Lola, I've been dreaming of the Amazon shore
Chorus:
Music by: Applefield, Eva.
Words by: Weslyn, Louis.
P/P/D: San Francisco : Daniels & Wilson, Inc., c1920.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: Murder!
First Line: There's murder in the air
Chorus: Oh! just hear that banjo
Music by: Gay, Byron.
Words by: Gay, Byron.
P/P/D: New York : Leo. Feist, Inc., c1920.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: Old man jazz.
First Line: Old man jazz has just arrived in town
Chorus: Some jazz! old man jazz has gone away from town, that's why ev'rybody is wears a frown.
Music by: Quaw, Gene.
Words by: Quaw, Gene.
P/P/D: New York : Jos. W. Stern & Co., c1920.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: Oh! Mother I'm wild.
First Line: Percival Algy was a sweet little boy
Chorus: Oh! mother, you wouldn't know your child
Music by: Johnson, Howard, Harry Pease, and Eddie Nelson.
Words by: Johnson, Howard, Harry Pease, and Eddie Nelson.
P/P/D: New York : Leo. Feist Inc., c1920.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: Oriental stars.
First Line: Purple night, purple night cast her soft mellow light on the sands, desert sands
Chorus: Shine down, you dreamy Oriental stars
Music by: Monaco, James V.
Words by: Monaco, James V.
P/P/D: New York : Shapiro, Bernstein & Co. Inc., c1920.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: Rose of Washington Square.
First Line: I'm Rosie, the queen of the models I used to live up in the Bronx but I wander'd from there down to Washington Square and Bohemian honky tonks
Chorus: Rose of Washington Square I'm withering there in basement air I'm fading
Music by: Hanley, James F.
Words by: MacDonald, Ballard.
P/P/D: New York : Shapiro, Bernstein & Co. Inc., c1920.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: Scandal walk.
First Line: Have you heard the latest scandal?
Chorus: Everybody do the scandal walk
Music by: Gershwin, Geo.
Words by: Gershwin, Geo.
P/P/D: New York : T. B. Harms and Francis, Day & Hunter, c1920.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: Struttin' yo' stuff.
First Line: Listen folks! here's a chance to learn the latest dance
Chorus: First you grab your partner then you "get way back"
Music by: Koehler, Ted, and Spencer Williams.
Words by: Koehler, Ted, and Spencer Williams.
P/P/D: Chicago : Will Rossiter, c1920.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: Tell me little gypsy.
First Line: Deep down in my heart there's a burning question
Chorus: Tell me little gypsy what the future holds for me
Music by: Berlin, Irving.
Words by: Berlin, Irving.
P/P/D: New York : Irving Berlin, Inc., c1920.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: When Alexander blues the blues.
First Line: Now Alexander, now Alexander was a syncopating man
Chorus: When Alexander blues the blues he's like a messenger of happy news
Music by: Squires, Harry D.
Words by: Freedman, Max C.
P/P/D: New York : Jack Mills, Inc., c1920.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: Whispering.
First Line: Honey I have something to tell you
Chorus: Whispering while you cuddle near me
Music by: Schonberger, John.
Words by: Schonberger, Malvin.
P/P/D: San Francisco : Sherman, Clay & Co., c1920.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: White feather.
First Line: When the moon is shining high in the sky, we shall fly you and I
Chorus: My sweet white feather we two together
Music by: Bernard, Peter, and Bert Worth.
Words by: Bernard, Peter, and Bert Worth.
P/P/D: London; New York : Herman Darewski Music Publishing Co; Leo Feist Inc., c1920.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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| ____________________ | 1921 | ____________________ |
Title: All by myself.
First Line: I'm so unhappy what'll I do
Chorus: All by myself in the morning, all by myself in the night
Music by: Berlin, Irving.
Words by: Berlin, Irving.
P/P/D: New York : Irving Berlin Inc., c1921.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: Answer (saying that you love me).
First Line: Dearie I'm alone far far away from home
Chorus: Answer saying that you love me
Music by: Vause, Norman J.
Words by: Vause, Norman J.
P/P/D: New York : Harry Von Tilzer Music Pub. Co., c1921.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
Note: Unpublished parts for this song were arranged by C. Weir Kirk.
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Title: Call me back, pal, o' mine.
First Line: I am thinking today of a pal far away that I left in the days long ago
Chorus: Call me back pal o' mine, let me dream once again
Music by: Dixon, Harold.
Words by: Brown, Morgan.
P/P/D: St. Louis, Chicago : Dixon- Lane Music Pub. Co., c1921.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: Dangerous blues.
First Line: Ta de da da de dum, ta de da da de dum that melody is in the air
Chorus: Oh I've got those dangerous blues ( so sweet and pretty)
Music by: Brown, Billie.
Words by: Brown, Anna Welker.
P/P/D: Kansas City, MO : J. W. Jenkins Sons Music Co., c1921.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: Honey (dat's all).
First Line: Jes' a little honeybee buzzin' 'roun' yo' mammy's knee
Chorus:
Music by: Van Alstyne, Egbert.
Words by: Gillespie, Haven.
P/P/D: New York : Van Alstyne and Curtis, c1921.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: Hail Chicago!
First Line: Gem of cities of our nation we to thee our homage bring
Chorus: Hail Chicago! Hail Chicago! first in art and industry
Music by: Allan, Bob.
Words by: Turnquist, Ted.
P/P/D: New York : Leo. Feist Inc., c1921.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: I'm gonna float my boat right back to Terre Haute.
First Line: Paris France New York or Chicago haven't got a chance you can't compare them with that Indiana town of mine
Chorus: Float my boat right back to Terre Haute that's where the banks of the Wabash beckon to me
Music by: Scott, Malcolm.
Words by: Scott, Malcolm.
P/P/D: Terre Haute, IN : M. C. Scott, c1921.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: It takes a good man to do that.
First Line: King Solomon was the first Romeo far as I can understand
Chorus: It takes a good man to do that
Music by: Bayha, Jack Elliot, and Chris Smith.
Words by: Bayha, Jack Elliot, and Smith Chris.
P/P/D: New York : Stark & Cowan, Inc., c1921.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: I've got a gal (thousand mile).
First Line: O people, I got a gal, sev'n feet tall, sleeps in the kitchen with her feet in the hall.
Chorus: My gal, my pal, I'm blue clear thru
Music by: Baxter, Phil.
Words by: Baxter, Phil.
P/P/D: Dallas : Majestic Music Publishing Co., c1921.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: Just been wond'ring all day long.
First Line: Just been wond'ring all day long what I'd do if you were gone
Chorus:
Music by: Canning, Irene Akerley.
Words by: Canning, Irene Akerley.
P/P/D: New York : M. Whitmark & Sons, c1921.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: Lonesome hours.
First Line:
Chorus:
Music by: Freind, Cliff.
Words by: Rose, Harry.
P/P/D: New York : Irving Berlin Inc., c1921.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: Ma.
First Line: Little Lilly was oh so silly and shy
Chorus: "Ma" he's making eyes at me, "ma" he's awful nice to me
Music by: Conrad, Con.
Words by: Clare, Sidney.
P/P/D: New York : Fred Fisher, Inc., c1921.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: Mississippi cradle.
First Line: Softly in my dreams comes a haunting melody
Chorus: Rock me in my Mississippi cradle, let me look into my mammy's eyes;
Music by: Olman, Abe.
Words by: Yellen, Jack.
P/P/D: Chicago : Forster Music Pub., Inc., c1921.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: Muscle shoals blues.
First Line: Hurry up mama pack your grip let's go back to old muscle shoals for a trip
Chorus: Ma-ma-ma-ma-ma-ma why don't you join hands and go with me to muscle shoals town
Music by: Thomas, Geo. W.
Words by: Thomas, Geo. W.
P/P/D: Chicago : Geo, W. Thomas and Co., c1921.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: My sunny Tennessee.
First Line: When the shades of night are falling, Tennessee, I hear you calling
Chorus: I wanna be in Tennessee in my Dixie paradise
Music by: Kalmar, Bert, Harry Ruby, and Herman Ruby.
Words by: Kalmar, Bert, Harry Ruby, and Herman Ruby.
P/P/D: New York : Waterson, Berlin & Snyder Co., c1921.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: Oh boy! (that hula hula).
First Line: To the tune of the Ukulele, here a maiden dances gaily
Chorus: Oh boy! when you see that hula hula dance
Music by: Riley, Edward.
Words by: Lockard, Ray W.
P/P/D: Des Moines : Riley & Co., c1921.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: Over the hill.
First Line: Daddy o'mine, dear mother divine, this world's unjust, I fear
Chorus: Over the hill, over the hill, why should they be there, over the hill?
Music by: Allen, Edgar, and Maurie Rubens.
Words by: Klein, Lou.
P/P/D: New York : Shapiro, Bernstein & Co. Inc., c1921.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: Remember the rose.
First Line: I have told this rose I will love you evermore
Chorus: When you are away dear remember the rose
Music by: Simons, Seymour B.
Words by: Mitchell, Sidney D.
P/P/D: New York, Detroit : Jerome H. Remick & Co., c1921.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: Sally.
First Line: There's some one that I can't forget where I may be; though not of high degree she's all the world to me.
Chorus: "Dear little girl, I love you, dear little girl; though the dress that you wear is a poor affair; you made me care."
Music by: Kern, Jerome.
Words by: Grey, Clifford.
P/P/D: New York : T. B. Harms Co., c1921.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: Scandinavia (sing dose song and make dose music).
First Line: Sing dose song and make dose music
Chorus: Scandinavia I love you
Music by: Perkins, Ray.
Words by: Perkins, Ray.
P/P/D: New York : Stark & Cowan, Inc., c1921.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: Song of love.
First Line: Once on a time, in a kingdom by the sea, lived a young prince sad and lonely
Chorus: You are my song of love melody immortal echo of Paradise heard through Heaven's portal
Music by: Schubert, Franz, Heinrich Berte, and Sigmund Romberg.
Words by: Donnely, Dorothy.
P/P/D: New York : Leo. Feist Inc., c1921.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: Tuck me to sleep in my old Tucky home.
First Line: Old Kentucky cradled me when I was born
Chorus: Tuck me to sleep in my old 'Tucky home
Music by: Meyer, Geo. W.
Words by: Lewis, Sam M., and Joe Young.
P/P/D: New York : Irving Berlin Inc., c1921.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: Vamping Rose.
First Line: There's a certain girlie, she's a ghetto queen
Chorus: Vamping Rose, there she goes, in her fancy clothes
Music by: Violinsky, and Ira Schuster.
Words by: Hanlon, Bert, and Ben Ryan.
P/P/D: New York : Leo Feist, Inc., c1921.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: The wang wang blues.
First Line: I've got the bluest blues, I'm just as blue as can be
Chorus: Wang wang blues, she's gone and left me with the wang wang blues
Music by: Mueller, Gus., "Buster" Johnson, and Henry Busse.
Words by: Wood, Leo.
P/P/D: New York : Leo. Feist, Inc., c1921.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: When shall we meet again.
First Line: The fairest sky or the brightest eye may cloud with the word "au revoir"
Chorus: When shall we meet again after this "au revoir" dear
Music by: Whiting, Richard A.
Words by: Egan, Raymond B.
P/P/D: New York : Jerome H. Remick & Co., c1921.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: Dearest you're the nearest to my heart.
First Line: Ev'ryone has something to be thankful for
Chorus: Dearest I love you always think of you
Music by: Akst, Harry.
Words by: Davis, Benny.
P/P/D: New York : Irving Berlin, Inc., c1922.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: Do it again!
First Line: Tell me, tell me, what did you do to me?
Chorus: Oh, do it again, I may say, "no, no, no, no, no," but do it again.
Music by: Gershwin, George.
Words by: De Sylva, B. G.
P/P/D: New York : Harms Inc., c1922.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: Hawaiian slumbertime.
First Line: Sun sinking, stars blinking up above
Chorus: Slumbertime, sweetheart mine, strolling here once more
Music by: Vendersloot, Carl.
Words by: Sherwood, Ray.
P/P/D: Williamsport, PA : Vandersloot Music Pub. Co., c1922.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: Home sick.
First Line: I feel very blue, yes I do, can't you tell
Chorus: Homesick, I know just what's the matter I'm homesick that's all
Music by: Berlin, Irving.
Words by: Berlin, Irving.
P/P/D: New York : Irving Berlin, Inc., c1922.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: Houston blues.
First Line: I can stay right here and really look a thousand miles away
Chorus: The Houston girls the Houston girls they have a dance down there they dance in a whirl
Music by: Thomas, Geo. W.
Words by: Thomas, Geo. W.
P/P/D: Chicago : Geo. W. Thomas & Co., c1922.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: I go to claim my love.
First Line: The breath of the desert is cooling the crimson sunbirds fly where Allah's palms are waving beneath a primrose sky
Chorus:
Music by: Royce, James Stanley.
Words by: Royce, James Stanley.
P/P/D: Williamsport, PA : Vandersloot Music Publishing Co., c1922.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: I had a garden.
First Line: I had a garden where in a rose bloomed for me in a day
Chorus:
Music by: Royce, James Stanley.
Words by: Royce, James Stanley.
P/P/D: Williamsport, PA : Vandersloot Music Publishing, c1922.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: I love a little cottage.
First Line: I love a little church-house on a friendly little hill, I love a little school-house with a flow'ring window sill
Chorus:
Music by: O'Hara, Geoffrey.
Words by: Stott, Francis Gilmore.
P/P/D: Cleveland : Sam Fox Pub. Co., c1922.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: I want some money (gimme some, gimme some).
First Line: What is it that ev'rybody craves for, what is it that ev'rybody raves for
Chorus: I want some money gimme some, gimme some, gimme some, gimme some do,
Music by: Silberman, L.
Words by: Rule, Herbert, and Fred Holt.
P/P/D: London : Anglo-French Music Publisher, c1922.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: If winter comes (summer will come again).
First Line: Love is a tale that is told, life is a book we may read.
Chorus: If winter comes and all your skies are grey;
Music by: Tennent, H.M.
Words by: Arkell, Reginald.
P/P/D: New York : Chappell-Harms, Inc., c1922.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: I'll stand beneath your window to-night and whistle.
First Line: I'm all smiles, great big smiles, just got an answer to a letter I wrote
Chorus: I'll stand beneath your window to-night and whistle for you
Music by: Benson, Jerry, Jimmie McHugh, and Georgie Price.
Words by: Benson, Jerry, Jimmie McHugh, and Georgie Price.
P/P/D: New York : Jack Mills, Inc., c1922.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: In rose time.
First Line: When roses bloom the sweet perfume fills all the air with gladness
Chorus: In rose time, in rose time, 'tis then I long to see,
Music by: Phillips, Edna J. Allen.
Words by: Phillips, Edna J. Allen.
P/P/D: Chicago : Mid-West Music House Publishers, c1922.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: It was June.
First Line: It was June when they met where the roses grew
Chorus:
Music by: Royce, James Stanley.
Words by: Royce, James Stanley.
P/P/D: Williamsport, PA : Vandersloot Music Publishing Co., c1922.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: I've got the wonder where he went and when he's coming back blues.
First Line:
Chorus:
Music by: Little, George A., and Tommy Lyman.
Words by: Little, George A., and Tommy Lyman.
P/P/D: New York : Irving Berlin, Inc., c1922.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: I've got those bonus blues.
First Line: You've heard of all kinds of blues
Chorus: Yes I've got those Bonus Blues
Music by: Frangkiser, C.M.
Words by: Hatton, Lew.
P/P/D: Fort Dodge, Iowa : K.L King Music House, c1922.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: Je cherche apres titine.
First Line: Je vous d'mand' pardon messieurs dames D'avoir l'air inquietet confus
Chorus: Je cherche apres Titine Titine! Titine! Je cherche apres Titine Et ne la trouve pas
Music by: Daniderff, Leo.
Words by:
P/P/D: Amsterdam :, C1922.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: Kiss mama kiss papa.
First Line: There lives next door to me a newly married pair.
Chorus: Kiss Mama kiss Papa you wonderful child.
Music by: Herman, Al.
Words by: Fairman, Geo.
P/P/D: New York : Jack Mills, Inc., c1922.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: The land o' romance.
First Line: There are many lands in this old world of ours
Chorus: The land of Romance where love reigns supreme, the wonderful land of which all of us dream
Music by: Gartlan, George H.
Words by: Michel, Rachel.
P/P/D: New York : Hinds, Hayden & Eldredge, Inc., c1922.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: Love's paradise (I never knew).
First Line: Ev'ry morn must have its dawning, ev'ry day its close;
Chorus: I never knew what gladness meant, until you came my way
Music by: Royce, James Stanley.
Words by: Royce, James Stanley.
P/P/D: Williamsport, PA : Vandersloot Music Publishing Co., c1922.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: Lovin' Sam (The sheik of Alabam').
First Line: Listen sisters and brothers, I suppose you've heard of the 'Sheik
Chorus: People call him Lovin' Sam He's the Sheik of Alabam'
Music by: Ager, Milton.
Words by: Yellen, Jack.
P/P/D: New York : Ager, Yellen & Bornstein Inc., c1922.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: Meanderin'.
First Line: Happy, happy, happy me! I'm full of ecstasy. My heart am thumpin, jumpin, bumpin most excitedly.
Chorus: Meand'rin' down the lane with Mandy
Music by: Gideon, Melville.
Words by: Cliff, Laddie, and Melville Gideon.
P/P/D: London : Francis, Day & Hunter, c1922.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: The midnight choo-choo (bound for Maryland).
First Line: Maryland; Maryland; I love you best of all, Maryland; Maryland; I seem to hear you call
Chorus: Goodbye, I'm leaving on the midnight choo-choo bound for Maryland.
Music by: Gilbert, Jos. Geo.
Words by: Gilbert, Jos. Geo.
P/P/D: London : The Lawrence Wright Music Co., c1922.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: My buddy.
First Line: Life is a book that we study some of its leaves bring a sigh
Chorus: Nights are long since you went away I think about you all thru the day My Buddy
Music by: Donaldson, Walter.
Words by: Kahn, Gus.
P/P/D: New York-Detroit : Jerome H. Remick & Co., c1922.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: My old Hawaiian home.
First Line: Memories of home come stealing o'er me as I roam
Chorus: Pretty little island of the sea, you are just a wonderland to me
Music by: Vandersloot, F.W.
Words by: Sherwood, Ray.
P/P/D: Williamsport, PA : Vandersloot Music Publishing Co., c1922.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: Poor little me.
First Line: I don't like to complain but I think it's a shame I don't know what the word love means
Chorus: Poor little me always lonesome and sad poor little me always getting in bad
Music by: Davis, Benny.
Words by: Davis, Benny.
P/P/D: New York : Irving Berlin Inc., c1922.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
Title: Some sunny day.
First Line: My heart goes pitter patter, no one knows what's the matter, just received a telegram from Alabam' my home
Chorus: Some sunny day with a smile on my face, I'll go back to that place far away
Music by: Berlin, Irving.
Words by: Berlin, Irving.
P/P/D: New York : Irving Berlin, Inc., c1922.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: Song of India.
First Line: A lonely little maid across the sea is waiting for her sweetheart patiently
Chorus:
Music by: Rimsky-Korsakoff, N.
Words by: Wilson, Al., and Jim Brennan.
P/P/D: New York : Edward B. Marks Music Co., c1922.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: Trees.
First Line: I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree
Chorus:
Music by: Rasbach, Oscar.
Words by: Kilmer, Joyce.
P/P/D: New York : G. Schirmer, Inc., c1922.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: When the world goes back on you.
First Line: Millions of hearts on the byways of life, are burdened with sorrow and care
Chorus: When the world goes back on you, and your rainbow's lost it's hue
Music by: Durand, Hampton.
Words by: Moore, Leo.
P/P/D: New York : Joe Mittenthal, Inc., c1922.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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Title: You remind me of my mother.
First Line: You ask me why I fell in love with you, I'm goin' to tell you the truth, dear, I'm goin' to tell you the truth
Chorus: You remind me of my mother my mother was a lot like you
Music by: Cohan, George M.
Words by: Cohan, George M.
P/P/D: New York : M. Witmark & Sons, c1922.
Location: SPC, KIRK SHEET 1918-1922
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