Author: Michael Deatz

Used in “ALEXANDER’S RAGTIME BAND,” 1938 film.
Words and Music by Irving Berlin.
Copyright ©27 Jul 1925.
Sheet Music from the collection of Michael Deatz.

The sheet music:

Lyrics

1. One little kiss, a moment of bliss
   Then hours of deep regret
   One little smile, and after a while
   A longing to forget
   One little heartache, left as a token
   One little plaything carelessly broken

Chorus
Remember the night, the night you said
“I love you”, remember?
Remember you vowed by all the stars
Above you, remember?
Remember we found a lonely spot
And after I learned to care a lot
You promised that you’d forget me not
But you forgot to remember

2. Into my dreams, you wandered it seems
   And then there came a day
   You loved me too, my dreams had come true
   And all the world was May
   But soon the Maytime, turned to December
   You had forgotten, do you remember?

Used in “ALEXANDER’S RAGTIME BAND,” 1938 film.
Words and Music by Irving Berlin.
Copyright ©23 Jul 1918.
Sheet Music from the collection of Michael Deatz.

The sheet music:

Lyrics

1. The other day I chanced to meet
   A soldier friend of mine
   He’d been in camp for sev’ral weeks
   And he was looking fine
   His muscles had developed
   And his cheeks were rosy red
   I asked him how he liked the life
   And this is what he said

Chorus
“Oh! how I hate to get up in the morning
Oh! how I’d love to remain in bed
For the hardest blow of all
Is to hear the bugler call
You’ve got to get up, you’ve got to get up
You’ve got to get up this morning
Some day I’m going to murder the bugler
Some day they’re going to find him dead
I’ll amputate his reveille
And step upon it heavily
And spend the rest of my life in bed”

Chorus
“Oh! how I hate to get up in the morning
Oh! how I’d love to remain in bed
For the hardest blow of all
Is to hear the bugler call
You’ve got to get up, you’ve got to get up
You’ve got to get up this morning
Oh! boy the minute the battle is over
Oh! boy the minute the foe is dead
I’ll put my uniform away
And move to Philadelphia
And spend the rest of my life in bed”

2. A bugler in the army
   Is the luckiest of men
   He wakes the boys at five
   And then goes back to bed again
   He doesn’t have to blow again
   Until the afternoon
   If everything goes well with me
   I’ll be a bugler soon

Used in “ALEXANDER’S RAGTIME BAND,” 1938 film.
Words and Music by Irving Berlin.
Copyright ©22 Sep 1933.

The sheet music:

Lyrics

Never saw you look quite so pretty before
Never saw you dressed quite so lovely, what’s more
I could hardly wait to keep our date
This lovely Easter morning
And my heart best fast
As I came through the door, for

Chorus
In your Easter bonnet, with all the frills upon it
You’ll be the grandest lady in the Easter Parade
I’ll be all in clover, and when they look you over
I’ll be the proudest fellow in the Easter Parade
On the avenue, Fifth Avenue, the photographers will snap us
And you ‘ll find that you’re in the rotogravure
Oh, I could write a sonnet about your Easter bonnet
And of the girl I’m taking to the Easter Parade

Used in “ALEXANDER’S RAGTIME BAND,” 1938 film.
Words and Music by Irving Berlin.
Copyright ©24 Jan 1927.
Sheet Music from the collection of Michael Deatz.

The sheet music.

Lyrics

1. I was blue just as blue as I could be
   Ev’ry day was a cloudy day for me
   Then good luck came a-knocking at my door
   Skies were gray but they’re not gray anymore

Chorus
Blue skies smiling at me
Nothing but blue skies do I see
Bluebirds singing a song
Nothing but bluebirds all day long
Never saw the sun shining so bright
Never saw things going so right
Noticing the days hurrying by
When you’re in love my! how they fly
Blue days all of them gone
Nothing but blue skies from now on

2. I should care if the wind blows east or west
   I should fret if the worst looks like the best
   I should mind if they say it can’t be true
   I should smile that’s exactly what I do

(Down on the Farm).
Used in M-G-M Musical Film “EASTER PARADE,) 1948.
From “STOP, LOOK, LISTEN,” 1915.
Words and Music by Irving Berlin.
Copyright ©30 Jul 1914.
Sheet Music from the collection of Michael Deatz.

The sheet music:

Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:

I Want To Go Back To Michigan – MIDIDOWNLOAD

Lyrics

1. I was born in Michigan, and I wish and wish again
That I was back in the town where I was born
There’s a farm in Michigan, and I’d like to fish again
In the river that flows beside the fields of waving corn
A lonesome soul am I, here’s the reason why

Chorus
I want to go back, I want to go back
I want to go back to the farm
Far away from harm, with a milk pail on my arm
I miss the rooster, the one that useter
Wake me up at four a.m.
I think your great big city’s very pretty
Never-the-less I want to be there
I want to see there
A certain some one full of charm
That’s why I wish again, that I was in Michigan
Down on the farm

2. You can keep your cabarets, where they turn nights into days
I’d rather be where they go to bed at nine
I’ve been gone for seven weeks, and I’ve lost my rosy cheeks
That’s the reason I’d rather have the country life for mine
My thoughts are far away, that’s just why I say

Sung here by Fred Feild: