A popular song from 1928
Words by Billy Rose and Mort Dixon
Music by Harry Warren
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- Speak easy, speak easy
Said Johnny Brown
I’m gonna leave this town
Everything is closing down
Speak easy, speak easy
And tell the bunch
I won’t go East, won’t go West
Got a different hunch
Chorus:
I’ll be leaving in the summer
And I won’t come back ’till fall
Goodbye Broadway, Hello Montreal
With a stein upon the table
I’ll be laughing at you all
Goodbye Broadway, Hello Montreal
I’m on my way, I’m on my way
And I’ll make Whoop-whoop
Whoopee night and day
Any time my wifie wants me
You can tell her where to call
Goodbye Broadway, Hello Montreal
- Speak easy, speak easy
Asked Tommy Gray
I must know right away
Are the gals up there O. K.
Speak easy, speak easy
Said Johnny Brown
You ain’t been hugged, ain’t been kissed
‘Till you’ve hit that town
Chorus:
Oh “we won’t get home ’till morning”
Is the best song after all
Goodbye Broadway, Hello Montreal
There’ll be no more Orange Phosphates
You can bet your Ingersoll
Goodbye Broadway, Hello Montreal
That old tin pail, that old tin pail
Was never meant to carry ginger ale
There’ll be photographs of brew’ries
All around my bedroom wall
Goodbye Broadway, Hello Montreal
Patter:
Ya-mo, ya-mo
I think I want a drink
Ya-mo, ya-mo
There’s water in the sink
The sink, the sink, the sink, the sink
The good old rusty sink
But who the heck wants water
When you’re dying for a drink
Sung by Laurence Rubenstein: