Tell All The Folks In Kentucky 1923

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 22 Nov 2006
2006

So you're goin' back to Kentucky
let me say that you're mighty lucky
Gee I wish I were you
I would like to go too,
Time for leavin' is gettin' shorter
Give your grip to the Pullman Porter
You're very anxious I see
please do a favor for me.

Tell all the folks down at home in Kentucky
that I'm comin'
say that a lonely old rollin' stone
wants to come home
and don't forget to tell those darkies
to keep their banjos strummin'
I'd like to have them welcome me
with a Dixie melody.
Oh how I long to be back in Kentucky
with my mammy
Oh how I wish that I had never
started to roam,
I feel so blue I could almost cry
here comes your train, Goodbye.
Tell all the folks down at home in Kentucky
that I'm comin' home.

Tell all the folks down at home in Kentucky
that I'm comin'
say that a lonely old rollin' stone
wants to come home
and don't forget to tell those darkies
to keep their banjos strummin'
I'd like to have them welcome me
with a Dixie melody.
Oh how I long to be back in Kentucky
with my mammy
Oh how I wish that I had never
started to roam,
I feel so blue I could almost cry
here comes your train, Goodbye.
Tell all the folks down at home in Kentucky
that I'm comin' home.

You'll be very glad in Kentucky
no one's ever sad in Kentucky
it's a land without care
sunshine follows you there
flocks of bluebirds are always singing
happiness they are always bringing
You will forget how to cry
when you get back to K.Y.

Tell all the folks down at home in Kentucky
that I'm comin'
say that a lonely old rollin' stone
wants to come home
and don't forget to tell those darkies
to keep their banjos strummin'
I'd like to have them welcome me
with a Dixie melody.
Oh how I long to be back in Kentucky
with my mammy
Oh how I wish that I had never
started to roam,
I feel so blue I could almost cry
here comes your train, Goodbye.
Tell all the folks down at home in Kentucky
that I'm comin' home.

Tell all the folks down at home in Kentucky
that I'm comin'
say that a lonely old rollin' stone
wants to come home
and don't forget to tell those darkies
to keep their banjos strummin'
I'd like to have them welcome me
with a Dixie melody.
Oh how I long to be back in Kentucky
with my mammy
Oh how I wish that I had never
started to roam,
I feel so blue I could almost cry
here comes your train, Goodbye.
Tell all the folks down at home in Kentucky
that I'm comin' home.

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Tell All The Folks In Kentucky 1923
Words & Music by Irving Berlin
© MCMXXIII by Irving Berlin Inc.   N.Y.
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sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Wednesday 22 November 2006 at 11.29pm
in association with Doug Grierson
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