Bring ‘long your lunch and leave ‘fore supper time
a 1909 popular song
words and music by James Tim Brymn, Chris Smith, and Jim Burris
The sheet music:
Accompaniment:
Lyrics
- Old Jasper Green, the deacon of
A church down South Car’line
He had a way of vis’ting folks
Along ’bout eating time
The other day while on the street
He met Aunt Mandy Lou
And said, “Sometime tomorrow
I’m gwine to call on you”
She said, “Call ’round most any day
It makes no difference
But these few words I’ve got to say
Right here in self defence”
Chorus
Come after breakfast, bring ‘long your lunch
And leave ‘fore supper time
If you do that I’m positive
That I will treat you fine
For ev’rybody’s welcome at my house
Whether in rain or shine
If they come after breakfast
Bring ‘long their lunch
And leave ‘fore supper time
- The women’s Christian temp’rance union
Met last Tuesday night
Aunt Mandy said if she could join
That she’d feel out of sight
They wrote Aunt Mandy telling her
That “We accept your hand
We also think a meeting now
At your house would be grand”
Aunt Mandy said, “You’re just as welcome
As the flow’rs in May
But as the food is so high now
These words I’m forced to say” - The President while traveling
Once came to Dixieland
The folks they flocked for miles around
To shake him by the hand
Aunt Mandy she pushed through the crowd
And said, “Who can it be?
Why all the folks are cheerin’
More than for our Booker T.”
The President said, “I may call
On all before I go”
Aunt Mandy said, “Before you call
At my house you must know”
Sung here by Fred Feild: