A popular song from 1923.
Words by Jack Yellen.
Music by Milton Ager.
Sheet music provided by Laurence Rubenstein:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- In ev’ry nest there’s a restless birdie
Who will fly away
In ev’ry fold there’s a bold, bad “lambie”
Bound to go astray
In childhood I yearned to ramble and roam
Now I have learned to hunger for home
Sorry I strayed
I have made my mind up to go back today
Chorus
Where the rambler roses ramble ’round
My old ramshackle shack
I’ll take the road that rambles back
To my Mammy in Alabamy
There’s a dewy, dewy, downy daisy dell
So shady and nice
A real paradise where I hid
As a barefooted kid
There’s a sweetie, yes indeedy
Counting the days
Till my rambling’s ended and I’ve mended
My rambling ways
Where the rambler roses ramble ’round
I’m always welcome back
So you can gamble I’m gonna ramble
To my old ramshackle shack
- In ev’ry tree there will be a birdie
Singing “welcome home”
Same as the breeze and the bees a-buzzin’
‘Round the honeycomb
In every garden violets blue
Gracefully noddin’ “how do you do?”
It’s gonna seem like a dream of Heaven
Ev’ry where I roam
Sung here by Fred Feild: