From the musical “Honey Girl”, 1920
Words by Neville Fleeson
Music by Albert Von Tilzer
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by Gerd Westendorp:
Lyrics
- I’m getting tired of the country
I’m getting tired of its ways
I want to go to the city
With its plays and cabarets
Small town affairs make me lonesome
People around make me blue
I want to leave them behind me
What I need is a change that’s true
Chorus:
I’d like to go away, I’d leave today
From this town where I was born
The cattle lowin’, the rooster crowin’
Wakes me early every morn
And the village beaux are oh, so slow
And the crowd around the grocery store
The oldest riddles they repeat
“Why does a chicken cross the street?”
I’d like to leave the village
For a place where I never could be bored
Where there is no celebration
Every time your neighbor buys a Ford
I’d like to go away, I’d leave today
For the city’s merry whirl
Well, I swan, I must be getting on
I wasn’t meant to be a small town girl
- Everyone knows what you’re doing
Everyone knows where you go
There’s not a new face around me
They all left here long ago
There isn’t even a movie
For it might do the town harm
“Uncle Tom’s Cabin” has played here
That was long before I was born
Sung by Vancha March: