a 1922 popular song
words and music by Charles McCord and Matthews
The sheet music:
Accompaniment:
Lyrics
- People get wise, won’t you open your eyes
The blues can make you sigh
Think of the day, you went away
How you could almost cry
I know a town, if you leave it you’ll frown
It’s a good old place of bliss
Just try it now, it will haunt you somehow
And make you feel like this
Chorus
Back, back, back to Birmingham in Alabam, Alabam
That’s where my girl is calling, “Daddy”
Won’t you please come back
Put your hat back on my rack
I hear my train a-waiting, my heart is palpitating
Back, back, back to Birmingham
Just like I am, like I am
I’ll walk right in just like a lamb
I may not have the key, yet the folks will welcome me
In Birminghay, way down in Alabam
- Charly McCoy was a musical boy
A wonder so they say
He left his home, only to roam
That’s why he went away
How it is true that he’s lonely and blue
And how his poor heart does pine
He took a note and upon it he wrote
These words to Caroline
Sung here by Fred Feild: