(But It’s Big Enough For Me)
A novelty one-step song, 1920
Words by Alex Gerber
Music by Abner Silver
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- In a one horse town lived young Rueben Brown
That’s where he spent all his years
A city friend came down to this country town
He had those big town ideas
He said, “Rueben, you’ve been here too long
Why don’t you leave your countryside?
What a pity you’re not in the city”
Then Rueben just replied
Refrain:
My home town is a one horse town
But it’s big enough for me
The population is scattered and small
You can’t find the town on any map at all
But just the same it means the world to me
To be with mother and my family
My home town is a one horse town
But it’s big enough for me
- After months rolled by, Rueben thought he’d try
Seeing the merry white way
And so he packed his grip, started on his trip
He landed there the next day
Soon he found out Broadway was a fraud way
He said, “It’s no place to be
Too much gimme, and too much shimmie
The simple life for me”
Sung by Laurence Rubenstein: