My House Boat Beau 1906 'The Vanderbilt Cup'

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 15 May 2005

Dusky man and dusky maid
wooed beneath a pawpaw's shade.
Love, said, he, let's wed and go
down the Mississippi slow.
I've a houseboat built for two
not a floating palace true
but we'll live a life of ease
doing as we doggone please, so

Down the Mississippi, baby,
we will float alone
in a cozy houseboat
maybe to a land unknown
and you can rule the home so queenly
all you say will go,
so let me be your houseboat beau

Down the Mississippi, baby,
we will float alone
in a cozy houseboat
maybe to a land unknown
and you can rule the home so queenly
all you say will go,
so let me be your houseboat beau

Sweeter in a southern breeze
than the moan of bamboo trees.
And the Mississippi calm
beats a jungle's waving palm.
All the fine clothes in the land
or a benzine buggy grand
couldn't coax you 'way from me
or our houseboat life so free, so

Down the Mississippi, baby,
we will float alone
in a cozy houseboat
maybe to a land unknown
and you can rule the home so queenly
all you say will go,
so let me be your houseboat beau

Down the Mississippi, baby,
we will float alone
in a cozy houseboat
maybe to a land unknown
and you can rule the home so queenly
all you say will go,
so let me be your houseboat beau

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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My House Boat Beau 1906
Lyrics by Raymond W. Peck
Music by Robert Hood Bowers
From Liebler & Co's Production - "The Vanderbilt Cup"
Produced at the Broadway Theatre New York,
With Elsie Janis.
Book by Sydney Rosenfeld
© MCMVI by Jerome H. Remick & Co.
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sequence and karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Sunday 15 May 2005 at 10.16
in association with Doug Grierson
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