Author: Michael Deatz

I'm a retired vocal music teacher in Iowa. Taught 39 years. Loved it. I collect Irving Berlin music and enjoy cleaning up music and covers and putting them on a iPad to carry around and play. (Where was iPad when I was teaching?)

Blue Skies (1938 ALEXANDER’S RAGTIME BAND film)

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.

Blue Skies (ALEXANDER’S RAGTIME BAND, 1938)Download

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

  1. 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

I Want to Go Back to Michigan (1948 EASTER PARADE film)

(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:

I Want to Go Back to Michigan (Down on the Farm) (EASTER PARADE 1948 film)Download

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: