(And have a wonderful time)
A popular song from 1916
Words by William Jerome
Music by Jean Schwartz
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
1. Call a taxi, please, me for shady trees
I’ve got that hometown feeling in my heart
I wish that darn old Pullman train would start
One big jubilee, all arranged for me
And at the station there’s a grand old pair
Waiting for me there
Chorus:
I’m going ‘way back home, ‘way back home
And have a wonderful time
I’m going ‘way back home, my own home
Where there is reason and rhyme
All of the time I’m goin’ to ride that old grey mule
The one I used to ride to school
I’m goin’ to dash in, I’m goin’ to splash into
That swimmin’ pool, nice and cool
Early in the morning when the chickens lay in the hay
I’ll be there to coax those nice warm eggs away
Hip hurray! I’m goin’ to fly a kite
I’m goin’ to spin a top
And I’ll shoo all the flies ’round the blacksmith shop
I’m going ‘way back home and have a wonderful time
2. Dad will teach me how, how to milk a cow
I’ll hang a little milkmaid on my arm
And make her show me all around the farm
I’ll pick daisies, too, with nice eyes of blue
And if the apples are too high to reach
I’ll just pick a peach