I Want To Go Back To Michigan 1914

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 19 Jul 2006
2006

I was born in Michigan
and I wish and wish again
that I was back in the town
where I was born;
there's a farm in Michigan,
and I'd like to fish again,
in the river that flows besides
the fields of waving corn.
A lonesome soul am I,
here's the reason why:

I want to go back,
I want to go back,
I want to go back to the farm,
far away from harm,
with a milk pail on my arm;
I miss the rooster,
the one that useter
wake me up at a.m.
I think your great big city's very pretty,
nevertheless I want to be there,
I want to be there
a certain some one full of charm;
that's why I wish again,
that I was in Michigan,
down on the farm.

I want to go back,
I want to go back,
I want to go back to the farm,
far away from harm,
with a milk pail on my arm;
I miss the rooster,
the one that useter
wake me up at a.m.
I think your great big city's very pretty,
nevertheless I want to be there,
I want to be there
a certain some one full of charm;
that's why I wish again,
that I was in Michigan,
down on the farm.

You can keep your cabarets,
where they turn nights into days,
I'd rather be
where they go to bed at nine:
I've been gone for seven weeks
and I've lost my rosy cheeks,
that's the reason I'd rather have
the country life for mine.
My thoughts are far away,
that's just why I say:

I want to go back,
I want to go back,
I want to go back to the farm,
far away from harm,
with a milk pail on my arm;
I miss the rooster,
the one that useter
wake me up at a.m.
I think your great big city's very pretty,
nevertheless I want to be there,
I want to be there
a certain some one full of charm;
that's why I wish again,
that I was in Michigan,
down on the farm.

I want to go back,
I want to go back,
I want to go back to the farm,
far away from harm,
with a milk pail on my arm;
I miss the rooster,
the one that useter
wake me up at a.m.
I think your great big city's very pretty,
nevertheless I want to be there,
I want to be there
a certain some one full of charm;
that's why I wish again,
that I was in Michigan,
down on the farm.

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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I Want To Go Back To Michigan 1914
words and music by Irving Berlin
© MCMXIV by Waterson, Berlin & Snyder Co.
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sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Wednesday 19 July 2006 at 12.14am
in association with Doug Grierson
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