A popular song from 1909.
Words and music by Ella Fontelle.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
1. When after your days work is over
And you’d like to know just where to go
You don’t want to go to a prayer meeting
Nor do you wish to see a show
You have carried a grip full of dull care
Your spirits are down very low
And you’re wondering if life is worth living
When your best friend says come let us go, Yes go
Chorus:
Down, down, down where the Wurtzberger flows, flows, flows
Then you say, on the way
We’ll sit under the Anheuser Bush
And drink Schlitz, Pabst, and then perhaps
Budweiser from the stein
But when you are dry, and have the price to buy
Any old beer tastes fine
2. The time has passed by all too quickly
You feel just like some great lord of old
And you would not change place with King Edward
Nor John D with all of his gold
Your heart is as light as a feather
Although your head don’t feel quite right
But you call on your friend the next evening
And says, Are you coming tonight, tonight