From the musical “WATCH YOUR STEP,” 1914.
Words and Music by Irving Berlin.
Published as part of the Piano-Vocal Score ©27 Jan 1915.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
Metropolitan nights
Metropolitan nights
Fashion and wealth go parading
In the glare of the Metropolitan lights
Metropolitan lights
Down at the Opera House
If you want to see
Metropolitan sights
Metropolitan sights
You’ll have to stand to be bored a bit
By some classical song
‘Mid the suffering throng
Fashion demands it on
Metropolitan nights
Sung by Laurence Rubenstein: