Everybody's On Their Way To Jersey 1920

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

There's a certain little State
no one thought was up to date,
Jokes about it made a lot of fun,
but folks are getting hunches
going there in bunches
a mighty mob has started on the run,
Tho' small in size that state is wise
nobody hesitates
its population soon will be
the whole United States.

Everybody's on their way to Jersey
Everybody's going there to stay,
And it's not to get the air,
that they're going over there
there is something doing something brewing
Oh! Boy! buckets of joy.
Three and a half percent in dear old Jersey
is not the dividends the bankers pay,
just hop on a train and tell the man
that you want to go where they rush the can
for everybody's on their way to Jersey.

Everybody's on their way to Jersey
Everybody's going there to stay,
And it's not to get the air,
that they're going over there
there is something doing something brewing
Oh! Boy! buckets of joy.
Three and a half percent in dear old Jersey
is not the dividends the bankers pay,
just hop on a train and tell the man
that you want to go where they rush the can
for everybody's on their way to Jersey.

People living there are fine
each one has a friend named "Stein"
Anderson had better watch his step
the cops are in a fury
each kitchen is a brewery
they brew those hops
that fill you full of pep.
From California Massachusetts
people far and near
a train they take to join the wake
and gather 'round the "bier"

Everybody's on their way to Jersey
Everybody's going there to stay,
And it's not to get the air,
that they're going over there
there is something doing something brewing
Oh! Boy! buckets of joy.
Three and a half percent in dear old Jersey
is not the dividends the bankers pay,
just hop on a train and tell the man
that you want to go where they rush the can
for everybody's on their way to Jersey.

Everybody's on their way to Jersey
Everybody's going there to stay,
And it's not to get the air,
that they're going over there
there is something doing something brewing
Oh! Boy! buckets of joy.
Three and a half percent in dear old Jersey
is not the dividends the bankers pay,
just hop on a train and tell the man
that you want to go where they rush the can
for everybody's on their way to Jersey.

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
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lyric
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Everybody's On Their Way To Jersey 1920
Music by Harry Akst & Lou Handman
Lyrics by Garfield Kilgour
© MCMXX by Irving Berlin Inc. - New York City
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sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Thursday 19 June 2008 at 22.03
in association with Veda Meyer-Castens
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