Hello Lemonade 1919

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 23 Apr 2013
2013

Up and down ev'ry street
where the good fellers meet
you can hear them saying goodbye
and they're telling each other "don't cry"
just because the old town's going dry.
If it comes to the worst
we can quench the old thirst
without breaking any law;
so don't be snappy.
To show we're happy
just let us all stand up and roar:

Goodbye whisky, so long beer
Hello Lemonade!
Folks may knock you and call you a lime
but they'll suck around you
in the summer time
Oh! you ice cream
Oh! you cake
when it's ninety in the shade
You may be sour
that is true
but we'll save up our sugar
just to sweeten you
Goodbye whisky, so long beer
Hello Lemonade!

Goodbye whisky, so long beer
Hello Lemonade!
Folks may knock you and call you a lime
but they'll suck around you
in the summer time
Oh! you ice cream
Oh! you cake
when it's ninety in the shade
You may be sour
that is true
but we'll save up our sugar
just to sweeten you
Goodbye whisky, so long beer
Hello Lemonade!

All the Jerrys and Joes
in their fishermen's clothes
will be out in rain and in shine,
with a pail on the end of each line,
they will bottle the old Brandy wine.
Ev'ry time some old sport
starts to open a quart
you will hear them loudly sing;
You're not the brandy
I once kept handy
you're like a bee that's lost its sting:

Goodbye whisky, so long beer
Hello Lemonade!
Folks may knock you and call you a lime
but they'll suck around you
in the summer time
Oh! you ice cream
Oh! you cake
when it's ninety in the shade
You may be sour
that is true
but we'll save up our sugar
just to sweeten you
Goodbye whisky, so long beer
Hello Lemonade!

Goodbye whisky, so long beer
Hello Lemonade!
Folks may knock you and call you a lime
but they'll suck around you
in the summer time
Oh! you ice cream
Oh! you cake
when it's ninety in the shade
You may be sour
that is true
but we'll save up our sugar
just to sweeten you
Goodbye whisky, so long beer
Hello Lemonade!

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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Hello Lemonade 1919
Music by Peter Wendling
Lyrics by Edgar Leslie & Bert Kalmar
© MCMXIX by Waterson, Berlin & Snyder
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sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Tuesday 23 April 2013 at 18.32
in association with Veda Meyer-Castens
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