(I’m Comin’ Home).
A popular song from 1923.
Words and Music by Irving Berlin.
Cover Art by Malcolm Perret.
Copyright ©23 Aug 1923.
Sheet Music from the collection of Michael Deatz.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- So, you’re goin’ back to Kentucky
Let me say that you’re mighty lucky
Gee, I wish I were you
I would like to go, too
Time for leavin’ is gettin’ shorter
Give your grip to the Pullman porter
You’re very anxious I see
Please do a favor for me
Chorus:
Tell all the folks down at home in Kentucky
That I’m comin’
Say that a lonely old rollin’ stone
Wants to come home
And don’t forget to tell those darkies
To keep their banjos strummin’
I’d like to have them welcome me
With a Dixie Melody
Oh, how I long to be back in Kentucky
With my mammy
Oh, how I wish that I never had started to roam
I feel so blue I could almost cry
Here comes your train, Goodbye
Tell all the folks down at home in Kentucky
That I’m comin’ home
- You’ll be very glad in Kentucky
No one’s ever sad in Kentucky
t’s a land without care
Sunshine follows you there
Flocks of bluebirds are always singing
Happiness they are always bringing
You will forget how to cry
When you get back to K. Y.
Sung by Laurence Rubenstein: