A popular song from 1914.
Words by Schuyler Greene.
Music by Otto Motzan.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
1. Billy Brown is leaving town, leaving this evening
He just loves to fool around, down beside the sea
Swimming with the women in the sport he loves the best
Give him that and you can have the rest
Billy told his city friends he had a notion
He’d find something swell down there beside the ocean
Chorus:
Down by the seaside, down by the seaside
He met a girl, he met a wonderful girl
First they got talking
Then they went walking down on the beach
Oh! what a peach
Though she sighed and said “Oh! how dare you mister”
Still she cried for more every time he kissed her
Fast as he’d make them, she’d up and take them
That’s the life for mine
All the girls call you dear, all your cares disappear
When you’re down by the seaside down by the seaside
Having a wonderful time”
2. Billy Brown came back to town, back from the seaside
At the station Billy found all the boys he knew
Forty thousand horses and a regiment of men
Couldn’t keep them in the city when
They saw Billy smiling face, nothing could hold them
They all packed their grips and beat it when he told them
Chorus:
Down by the seaside, down by the seaside
He met a girl, he met a wonderful girl
First they got talking
Then they went walking down on the beach
Oh! what a peach
Though she sighed and said “Oh! how dare you mister”
Still she cried for more every time he kissed her
Fast as he’d make them, she’d up and take them
That’s the life for mine
You can be just as free as the salt in the sea
When you’re down by the seaside
Down by the seaside having a wonderful time”