East Is East West Is West 1922 JPitt-Payne

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 7May2014
2014

I've always been a rover
I've looked the whole world over
East, West, South, North,
I've travelled back and forth,
And if, I were a teacher
of geography
here's what each tot
would learn from me.

East is East, and West is West,
but the South is Paradise
that's my fav'rite name
for Dixieland.
Down where the honey flows
from each rose
land o' sunny skies,
Home sweet home
it's like a great big honeycomb
when Mother Earth
gave Dixie birth,
The sun looked down and smiled
Nature gave it ev'rything
that's nice
and ev'ry bird up in the sky
on the day it learns how to fly
knows that East is East,
West is West
but the South is Paradise.

East is East, and West is West,
but the South is Paradise
that's my fav'rite name
for Dixieland.
Down where the honey flows
from each rose
land o' sunny skies,
Home sweet home
it's like a great big honeycomb
when Mother Earth
gave Dixie birth,
The sun looked down and smiled
Nature gave it ev'rything
that's nice
and ev'ry bird up in the sky
on the day it learns how to fly
knows that East is East,
West is West
but the South is Paradise.

They've tried in song and story
to tell of Dixie's glory;
they've sung its praise
in many diff'rent ways,
But you've just got to see it
that's the only way
if you want to know
why I say:

East is East, and West is West,
but the South is Paradise
that's my fav'rite name
for Dixieland.
Down where the honey flows
from each rose
land o' sunny skies,
Home sweet home
it's like a great big honeycomb
when Mother Earth
gave Dixie birth,
The sun looked down and smiled
Nature gave it ev'rything
that's nice
and ev'ry bird up in the sky
on the day it learns how to fly
knows that East is East,
West is West
but the South is Paradise.

East is East, and West is West,
but the South is Paradise
that's my fav'rite name
for Dixieland.
Down where the honey flows
from each rose
land o' sunny skies,
Home sweet home
it's like a great big honeycomb
when Mother Earth
gave Dixie birth,
The sun looked down and smiled
Nature gave it ev'rything
that's nice
and ev'ry bird up in the sky
on the day it learns how to fly
knows that East is East,
West is West
but the South is Paradise.

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
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East Is East West Is West 1922 JPitt-Payne
Music by Milton Ager
Lyrics by Jack Yellen
© MCMXXII by Harry von Tilzer Mus.Pub.Co.
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Sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Wednesday 7 May 2014 at 13.20
in association with Veda Meyer=Castens
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