Back Back Back To Baltimore 1904

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 19 Oct 2008
2008

Forty below,
coon from a show,
sits by a water tank
out in the snow,
He looped the loop
with a cheap troupe
and then the manager
he flew the coup,
why does he wait
out there so late
just for a common old
ev'ryday freight,
He's broke you know
so is the show,
and that's why he cries
this much is so:

I'm going back, back,
back to Baltimore,
this acting bus'ness
cert'nly makes me sore,
A black face song
or a minstrel joke
won't entice this foolish moke,
I never cared for home so much before,
They said we'd
stop at swell hotels galore,
We only stopped at them
outside the door,
The next man says I'm talented,
I'll put a dent right in his head,
If I get back to Baltimore.

Some fellow mean,
said: "Mr. Green,
You'se the most comical man
I have seen,
But he took a reef
in his belief
that I was funny as McIntyre Heaf,
I went and spent
seven weeks rent
for a plug hat now
I ain't got a cent,
Here I am broke,
that hat in soak,
If I act again,
I hope I choke:

I'm going back, back,
back to Baltimore,
this acting bus'ness
cert'nly makes me sore,
A black face song
or a minstrel joke
won't entice this foolish moke,
I never cared for home so much before,
They said we'd
stop at swell hotels galore,
We only stopped at them
outside the door,
The next man says I'm talented,
I'll put a dent right in his head,
If I get back to Baltimore.

I'm going back, back,
back to Baltimore,
this acting bus'ness
cert'nly makes me sore,
A black face song
or a minstrel joke
won't entice this foolish moke,
I never cared for home so much before,
They said we'd
stop at swell hotels galore,
We only stopped at them
outside the door,
The next man says I'm talented,
I'll put a dent right in his head,
If I get back to Baltimore.

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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Back Back Back To Baltimore 1904
Respectfully dedicated to The Kings of Black-Face
McIntyre & Heath
Music by Egbert Van Alstyne
Lyrics by Barry H.Williams
© 1904 by Shapiro Remick & Co. - New York
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sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Sunday 19 October 2008 at 22.39
in association with Veda Meyer-Castens
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