It's Getting Dark On Old Broadway 1922

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 6 November 2007
2007

We used to brag about the Broadway white lights,
the very famous dazzling WhiteWay night lights;
they used to glare and glimmer,
but they are growing dimmer;
perhaps you've noticed in the night cafés now,
if you go out on a lark,
just take a tip from me,
take a trip you will see
Broadway is getting quite dark.

It's getting very dark on old Broadway,
you see the change in ev'ry cabaret;
It's just like an eclipse on the moon,
ev'ry café now has the dancing coon.
Pretty choc'late babies
shake and shimmie ev'rywhere.
Real darktown entertainers hold the stage,
You must black up to be the latest rage.
Yes, the great white way is white no more,
it's just like a street on the Swanee shore;
it's getting very dark on old Broadway.

It's getting very dark on old Broadway,
you see the change in ev'ry cabaret;
It's just like an eclipse on the moon,
ev'ry café now has the dancing coon.
Pretty choc'late babies
shake and shimmie ev'rywhere.
Real darktown entertainers hold the stage,
You must black up to be the latest rage.
Yes, the great white way is white no more,
it's just like a street on the Swanee shore;
it's getting very dark on old Broadway.

Soft karaoke
Words
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lyric
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It's Getting Dark On Old Broadway 1922
by Louis A.Hirsch, Gene Buck & Dave Stamper
© MCMXXII by Harms Inc. N.Y.
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sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Tuesday 6 November 2007 at 20.23
in association with Doug Grierson
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