Overalls and Calico 1920

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 7 May 2012
2012

Styles in clothes are always changing
I suppose they always will;
But the clothes we wore in childhood
somehow, dear, I love them still.
Our clothes were tattered
but nothing mattered
as we wandered o'er the hill.

Overalls and calico
each recalls the long ago;
we meet in broad cloth and laces
but we miss the light of smiling faces
Tattered clothes and peeping toes,
eyes of youth aglow,
make me yearn again to go
back to the land
of Overalls and Calico.

Overalls and calico
each recalls the long ago;
we meet in broad cloth and laces
but we miss the light of smiling faces
Tattered clothes and peeping toes,
eyes of youth aglow,
make me yearn again to go
back to the land
of Overalls and Calico.

Seems to me the daisies knew us,
knew the wondrous things we planned;
birds all sang a welcome to us,
as we wandered hand in hand.
The sunshine kissed us
the flowers have missed us
since we left that happy land.

Overalls and calico
each recalls the long ago;
we meet in broad cloth and laces
but we miss the light of smiling faces
Tattered clothes and peeping toes,
eyes of youth aglow,
make me yearn again to go
back to the land
of Overalls and Calico.

Overalls and calico
each recalls the long ago;
we meet in broad cloth and laces
but we miss the light of smiling faces
Tattered clothes and peeping toes,
eyes of youth aglow,
make me yearn again to go
back to the land
of Overalls and Calico.

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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Overalls and Calico 1920
"Dedicated to The Cheese Club"
Music by Jean Schwartz
Lyrics by Gus Kahn
© MCMXX by Jerome H.Remick & Co. New York & Detroit
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sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Monday 7 May 2012 at 20.02
in association with Veda Meyer-Castens
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