A popular song from 1921
Words by Gus Kahn and Raymond B. Egan
Music by Richard A. Whiting
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by Halcyon Days Music:
Lyrics
- Gad-a-bouts of now-a-days
All spend their winter holidays
Way down old Bimini way
Men of Wall street big and haughty
Grow a trifle gay and naughty
Way down on Bimini Bay
When men talk honeymooning today
They all rave about Bimini Bay they say
Chorus
Come and spoon with me
‘Neath the julep tree
Down old Bimini way
Hear the cocktails a-calling
Come to Bimini Bay
Sweet orange blossoms await you down yonder
Where they say Absinthe will make
Every loving heart grow fonder
There’s a shady nook by a sunny brook
Where the Green River flows
There we’ll spend our days
And we’ll try to raise Tom and Jerries who knows
Each night we’ll sample our private stock
Wind up the cat and put out the clock
Oh by Jiminy won’t you come with me
Down to Biminy Bay
- There is magic in the moon
That makes December seem like June
Way down old Bimini way
Count the stars if you are able
In the skies or on a label
Way down on Bimini Bay
Palm trees waving so friendly at you
And each tree that you see looks like two to you
Chorus
There’s a rickey tree By the Hennesea
Down old Bimini way
All the folks are good mixers
Down on Bimini Bay
You’ll love that tropical Island
The moon shines bright ev’ry night
On that lovely Rock and Rye land
Oh by hickory it’s so liquory
Down on Bimini Bay
And of late I’ve heard every wise old bird
Will be flying that way
You’ll find that’s where the good lawyers are
And how they practice at ev’ry bar
Oh by Jiminy how I’d love to be
Down on Biminy Bay
Sung here by Laurence Rubenstein: