Down on the Sandwich Isles

a 1922 popular song
words by Oliver L. Hoppie
music by George Graff Jr.

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The sheet music:

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Accompaniment:

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Lyrics

1. There’s a little brown Betty, down on the Sandwich Isles
   Sitting out on a jetty, her face all wreathed in smiles
   She’s waiting for her sailor boy, who sails for many miles
   To fill her lonely heart with joy, down on the Sandwich Isles

Chorus
She wears a gold ring in her nose, it’s the fashion down that way
She don’t wear any fancy clothes, her skirt is made of hay
They toddle and jazz, down on the white sand
As they copy all our styles, to the music of a Hula band
Down on the Sandwich Isles

2. There’s another brown Betty, down on the Sandwich Isles
   Nervous and she is fretty, her sad face never smiles
   She’ll try to steal that sailor boy, with action that beguiles
   To say she killed another’s joy, down on the Sandwich Isles

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Sung here by Fred Feild: