A popular song from 1922.
Words and music by Irving Berlin.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- My heart goes pitter patter
No one knows what’s the matter
Just received a telegram from Alabam’ my home
That’s why I’m gonna worry
‘Till the time when I hurry
Right back to that cabin door
Never more to roam
Chorus
Some sunny day with a smile on my face
I’ll go back to that place far away
Back to that shack and that red headed hen
She’ll say, “How have you be’n”
Then go back to the hay and lay me my breakfast
Some sunny day I’ll be on that express
Flying away to my little bunch of happiness
Oh, how I pine, for those lips sweet as wine
They’ll be pressed close to mine
Some sunny day
- Sunny spring is the season
When birds sing there’s a reason
Rolling stones who hear their song
Begin to long for home
Lohengrin Mister Verdi don’t begin with a birdie
Telling you to go back home
Never more to roam
Sung here by Fred Feild: