In The Evening

A popular song from 1924
Words and music by Walter Donaldson

The sheet music:

In The Evening – Sheet MusicDownload

Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:

In_The_Evening – MIDIDownload

Lyrics

  1. Some folks like the beautiful dewy dawn
    With the birdies and bees
    And the evergreen trees
    There’s laugher on a beautiful afternoon
    But to my mind there’s just one time
    When the world’s in tune

Chorus:
In the evening, by the corn and the cotton
Old bad news and blues are forgotten
In Dixieland sweet Dixieland
In the evening, by the Old Swanee River Folks get hot but
Oh! how they shiver to the music they understand
So when you’re speakin’ of beautiful
Speakin’ of wonderful dawning
Nothin’ could be finer than to be in Carolina in the morning
But in the evening, by the corn and the cotton
Old bad news and blues are forgotten
In the evening, down in Dixieland

Patter:
Goodnight I gotta be
Goodnight I oughta be
Goodnight they’re callin’ me
I’d better hurry along
Goodnight I never knew
I might be feelin’ blue
Some sight I’m tellin’ you
Down by the cotton and corn
In the evening, by the corn and the cotton
Old bad news and blues are forgotten
In the evening, down in Dixieland

  1. ‘Round ’bout nine the birdies all start to creep
    In each feathery nest
    And they cuddle to rest
    But Mister Owl just opens his blinky eyes
    He’s not so slow and now
    I know why the owl is wise