That's Where The South Begins 1930

Dr. Pitt-Payne in London UK - 20 Dec 2002

ByeBye folks! I'm leaving you,
Hope I won't be grieving you,
'cause I'm on my way
where ev'ry day's a holiday;
Place is where the South begins,
Faces full of happy grins,
greet you ev'rywhere,
you ought to come and join me there.

Where the skies are always blue
and the whole world smiles at you,
you can always tell,
and you know darn well
you're where the South begins.
Oh the angels cut a slice
of the best of Paradise,
fenced it off up North,
and they said: "Hence forth
here's where the South begins."
Up here a storm!
We're shivering in our boots;
down there it's warm,
and they're wearing bathing suits.
Where the sun is hot above,
but it's not too hot to love,
happy days of joy,
and the nights, Oh Boy!
That's where the South begins.

Where the skies are always blue
and the whole world smiles at you,
you can always tell,
and you know darn well
you're where the South begins.
Oh the angels cut a slice
of the best of Paradise,
fenced it off up North,
and they said: "Hence forth
here's where the South begins."
Up here a storm!
We're shivering in our boots;
down there it's warm,
and they're wearing bathing suits.
Where the sun is hot above,
but it's not too hot to love,
happy days of joy,
and the nights, Oh Boy!
That's where the South begins.

'Fore long, ne'er again to roam,
they'll throng to welcome me home,
won't there be a spree?
A reg'lar tiptop Jubilee;
Dances 'neath the skies so blue,
Glances fron grey eyes so true,
hurry up that train,
I want to be right there again!

Where the skies are always blue
and the whole world smiles at you,
you can always tell,
and you know darn well
you're where the South begins.
Oh the angels cut a slice
of the best of Paradise,
fenced it off up North,
and they said: "Hence forth
here's where the South begins."
Up here a storm!
We're shivering in our boots;
down there it's warm,
and they're wearing bathing suits.
Where the sun is hot above,
but it's not too hot to love,
happy days of joy,
and the nights, Oh Boy!
That's where the South begins.

I've been to the East,
East, with its myst'ries of the past,
I've been to the West,
West, where the pace is terribly fast,
I've been to the North,
North, just a frozen desert of snow,
Give me the South,
South, Heaven on earth below,

Where the skies are always blue
and the whole world smiles at you,
you can always tell,
and you know darn well
you're where the South begins.
Oh the angels cut a slice
of the best of Paradise,
fenced it off up North,
and they said: "Hence forth
here's where the South begins."
Up here a storm!
We're shivering in our boots;
down there it's warm,
and they're wearing bathing suits.
Where the sun is hot above,
but it's not too hot to love,
happy days of joy,
and the nights, Oh Boy!
That's where the South begins.

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That's Where The South Begins 1930
Music by Ted Shapiro
Lyrics by Jack Yellen
copyright MCMXXX by Ager, Yellen and Bornstein Inc. N.Y.
sequence and karaoke by Dr. Pitt-Payne in London UK
on Friday 20 December 2002 at 19.35
in association with Doug Grierson
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