Home Sweet Home Sounds Good To Me 1906

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 18 December 2010
2010

Tired of playing one night stands,
tired of hearing Minstrel Bands,
Jasper Jones lay fast asleep in bed;
Just as he began to snore,
He heard knocking at the door,
"Four o'clock get up." somebody said,
Forty seven trunks below
ship them off to Mexico
We play there tonight old lazy bones,
Jasper slowly shook his head,
"Must I leave this nice warm bed?"
Then he softly sighed in mournful tones.

I don't want to go to Mexico,
I just want to get some good old dough,
If I ever sees it in my hands
You can keep your one night stands
and I'll just beat it to the nearest train,
Bet your life you won't see me again;
Did somebody mention Tennessee?
'Cause home sweet home sounds good to me.

I don't want to go to Mexico,
I just want to get some good old dough,
If I ever sees it in my hands
You can keep your one night stands
and I'll just beat it to the nearest train,
Bet your life you won't see me again;
Did somebody mention Tennessee?
'Cause home sweet home sounds good to me.

Jasper sitting on a trunk
said this show's an awful bunk,
No one ever seems to have a sou;
Asked the manager one day,
If he let me have my pay,
He said: "I was going to touch you,"
Mexico along the track
I can see us walking back,
We won't make the price of railroad fare,
Mexico with this old show,
Mexico, well I guess no;
Tennessee's a million miles from there.

I don't want to go to Mexico,
I just want to get some good old dough,
If I ever sees it in my hands
You can keep your one night stands
and I'll just beat it to the nearest train,
Bet your life you won't see me again;
Did somebody mention Tennessee?
'Cause home sweet home sounds good to me.

I don't want to go to Mexico,
I just want to get some good old dough,
If I ever sees it in my hands
You can keep your one night stands
and I'll just beat it to the nearest train,
Bet your life you won't see me again;
Did somebody mention Tennessee?
'Cause home sweet home sounds good to me.

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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Home Sweet Home Sounds Good To Me 1906
Music by Harry von Tilzer
Lyrics by Andrew B.Sterling
© 1906 by Harry von Tilzer Music Pub.Co. - New York
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sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Saturday 18 December 2010 at 12.51
in association with Veda Meyer-Castens
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