I Beg Your Pardon Dear Old Broadway 1911

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 08 Nov 2006
2006

Broadway, Broadway,
I've a message
from a friend across the foam,
from someone who loves you dearly,
tho' he's miles away from home.
Kind applause is not his cause,
because I know he loves you true.
I'll feel better when I read his letter;
here's the words he wrote to you:

I beg your pardon dear old Broadway,
for list'ning to a foreign song;
I thought I'd find a street
with you could compete,
I only found that I was wrong.
My hat's aloft to you, old Broadway,
you're in a class alone today;
and if I thought for a minute
that the others were in it,
won't you pardon me, Broadway?

I beg your pardon dear old Broadway,
for list'ning to a foreign song;
I thought I'd find a street
with you could compete,
I only found that I was wrong.
My hat's aloft to you, old Broadway,
you're in a class alone today;
and if I thought for a minute
that the others were in it,
won't you pardon me, Broadway?

Broadway, I too said goodbye
to all the sights across the sea,
Joy! once more, for soon I saw
the Statue of Old Liberty!
Hand in air, she greets you there,
to drive away all care and pain;
joy smiles at you,
while the great big statue seems to say:
"Never again!"

I beg your pardon dear old Broadway,
for list'ning to a foreign song;
I thought I'd find a street
with you could compete,
I only found that I was wrong.
My hat's aloft to you, old Broadway,
you're in a class alone today;
and if I thought for a minute
that the others were in it,
won't you pardon me, Broadway?

I beg your pardon dear old Broadway,
for list'ning to a foreign song;
I thought I'd find a street
with you could compete,
I only found that I was wrong.
My hat's aloft to you, old Broadway,
you're in a class alone today;
and if I thought for a minute
that the others were in it,
won't you pardon me, Broadway?

Soft karaoke
Words
piano
piano
piano
piano
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I Beg Your Pardon Dear Old Broadway 1911
Words & Music by Irving Berlin
© 1911 by Ted Snyder Co.Inc.  N.Y.
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by sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Wednesday 08 November 2006 at 10.21pm
in association with Doug Grierson
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