Going Up the Sawdust Trail

A popular song from 1915.
Words by Al Dubin.
Music by Jos. A. Burke.

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The sheet music:

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Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:

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Lyrics

1. There’s a miracle man in town
   There’s a wonderful man around
   He’d been a big sensation, man of salvation
   He starts raving about your sins
   There is many a soul he wins
   When he shouts, “Come on, ye brothers!”
   What do they do?

Chorus
You’ll see them
Going up the sawdust trail
Going up the sawdust trail
Men from Yale and men from jail
They start thinking, they’ll quit drinking
Going up the sawdust trail
They’ve got the devil by the tail
Old men, young men pledge their lives
Promise not to beat their wives
Till the Judgement day arrives
Going up the sawdust trail

2. See them taking the sawdust walk
   Hear his wonderful line of talk
   At almost all his sessions, he gets confessions
   I saw hundreds of preacher men
   Hear him calling them down, and then
   When he cried, “Come on, ye sinners!”
   What did they do?

Chorus
You’ll see them
Going up the sawdust trail
Going up the sawdust trail
Men from Yale and men from jail
They start thinking, they’ll quit drinking
Going up the sawdust trail
They’ve got the devil by the tail
Girls who powder, girls who paint
Girls who look like what they ain’t
They all pray until they faint
Going up the sawdust trail

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