Author: Fred

Fred Feild's email is screamnj@msn.com. I use Cubase to recreate old popular songs from sheet music. On this site you can listen to full songs you can't find elsewhere. I can show you how I create them.

Easter Parade (1938 ALEXANDER’S RAGTIME BAND film)

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

The sheet music:

Easter Parade (ALEXANDER’S RAGTIME BAND, 1938)Download

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

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

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