A popular song from 1922.
Words and music by Eugene West.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- Ev’rybody loves their place of birth
Seems it’s just the grandest spot on earth
Some folks live in mansions, some live mighty well
But the stork just dropped me where it’s not so swell
Refrain
Sunshine Alley, where hand organs play
Sunshine alley, there I first saw light of day
Tho’ it’s humble and poor, ev’ry heart’s a gem
There the boys and the girls
All say “Dese, Dose and Dem”
Sunshine Alley, where they’re dead on the square
Folks are pally tho’ it’s tatters they wear
And I’m proud I was born
On the little side-street there
It’s God’s Valley, Old Sunshine Alley
- As a child I loved that quaint old place
And I love it still ’twill not efface
While it’s not high toney, as you may surmise
Still it’s far from phoney, it’s a paradise
Sung here by Fred Feild: