So Long Oo-long

(How long you gonna be gone?)
a 1920 popular song
words and music by Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby

The sheet music:

So-Long-Oo-long – Sheet MusicDownload

Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:

So_Long_Oo-Long – MIDIDownload

Lyrics

  1. Ming Toy loved a boy
    Happy little Japanee
    Oo-long was his name
    Set her heart a-flame
    One day he say
    “Soon I gotta go away”
    When he leave Ming Toy grieve
    Everybody hear her say

Chorus
“So long! Oo-long
How long you gonna be gone?
Your little Japanee,
Will be waiting underneath the bamboo tree;
So don’t be too long,
Oo-long I’ll long while you’re away
Waiting for the day
When you’ll come back to me
I’ll sit and sigh, ‘Neath the Oriental sky
Each day that I am left a lone in Naki Saki
So long! Oo-Long
How long you goin’ to roam?
Please don’t be too long, Oo-long
So long, hurry back home.”

  1. Days fly quickly by
    Turning into lonely years
    Tho’ the nights are long
    Ming Toy’s faith is strong
    She kneels and feels
    That she doesn’t pray in vain
    Whispers “Oo, I love you
    Ming Toy wants you back again”