I'll Take You Back To Italy 1917 "Jack O'Lantern"

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 23 Nov 2006
2006

[Tony:] I like a you, Marie
[Marie:] I like a you, Tony,
[Tony:] We gonna make a marriage soon.
[Marie:] Make a da nice a honeymoon;
[Tony:] After I marry you,
[Marie:] What are you gonna do?

[Tony:] I'll take a you back with me,
back to sunny Italy,
[Marie:] That's where I would like to be,
in the old country.
No more you make the organ grind,
[Tony:] I leave the org' behind;
[Marie:] I'll cook spaghetti
[Tony:] That's very good, Eddie
[Marie:] The nice Italian kind
[Tony:] We'll raise a da family
[Marie:] They will look like you and me
[Tony:] How many we have, Marie?
[Marie:] One, two or three
What will we do with the monk,
they'll never let him pass?
[Tony:] We'll give the monk to Missus Vernon Cas'
[Both:] And sail back to sunny Italy.

[Tony:] I'll take a you back with me,
back to sunny Italy,
[Marie:] That's where I would like to be,
in the old country.
No more you make the organ grind,
[Tony:] I leave the org' behind;
[Marie:] I'll cook spaghetti
[Tony:] That's very good, Eddie
[Marie:] The nice Italian kind
[Tony:] We'll tell a da family
[Marie:] They must never cross the sea,
[Tony:] The money in this country,
[Marie:] is not so free
We'll say the barber shop business
it never pays,
[Tony:] Ev'ryone here they use the safety raz'
[Both:] So we came to sunny Italy.

[Tony:] We'll have a little wop,
[Marie:] Someone to call you Pop
[Tony:] He'll look a like his daddy did,
[Marie:] Gee! but he'll be a homely kid;
[Tony:] We'll call a him Tony,
[Marie:] Maybe he'll be a she!

[Tony:] I'll take a you back with me,
back to sunny Italy,
[Marie:] That's where I would like to be,
in the old country.
No more you make the organ grind,
[Tony:] I leave the org' behind;
[Marie:] I'll cook spaghetti
[Tony:] That's very good, Eddie
[Marie:] The nice Italian kind
[Tony:] We'll raise a da family
[Marie:] They will look like you and me
[Tony:] How many we have, Marie?
[Marie:] One, two or three
What will we do with the monk,
they'll never let him pass?
[Tony:] We'll give the monk to Missus Vernon Cas'
[Both:] And sail back to sunny Italy.

[Tony:] I'll take a you back with me,
back to sunny Italy,
[Marie:] That's where I would like to be,
in the old country.
No more you make the organ grind,
[Tony:] I leave the org' behind;
[Marie:] I'll cook spaghetti
[Tony:] That's very good, Eddie
[Marie:] The nice Italian kind
[Tony:] We'll tell a da family
[Marie:] They must never cross the sea,
[Tony:] The money in this country,
[Marie:] is not so free
We'll say the barber shop business
it never pays,
[Tony:] Ev'ryone here they use the safety raz'
[Both:] So we came to sunny Italy.

Soft karaoke
Words
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I'll Take You Back To Italy 1917
as introduced by Fred Stone
in Chas B.Dillingham's Production
"Jack O'Lantern"
Words & Music by Irving Berlin
© MCMXVII by Waterson, Berlin & Snyder Co.  N.Y.
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sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Thursday 23 November 2006 at 10.53am
in association with Doug Grierson
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