From the show “THE COCOANUTS”, 1925.
Words and Music by Irving Berlin.
Cover Art by Sydney Leff.
Copyright ©10 Nov 1925.
Sheet Music from the collection of Michael Deatz.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
Down in the land of the cocoanuts
Before the welcome season shuts
A million million-dollar huts will be found.
Down in the land where the trees are tall,
We’re asking you to pay a call
And live where it is summer all the year ’round.
Buy a lot,
Any piece that we’ve got
Will increase
Ev’ry season;
Ask us why
Everyone
Wants to lie
In the sun;
There’s a reason
One little ride in a Pullman car,
A night and day and there you are—
Come on, it’s time you should be Florida bound.
CHORUS
In the lovely land of Florida,
Sunny Florida by the sea±
All the sunshine in America
Is in Florida, you’ll agree.
When they’re freezing up north,
Sneezing up north,
Always it’s July the Fourth
In the lovely land of Florida,
Sunny Florida, by the sea.
Sung here by Laurence Rubenstein: