(You Can Get the Same Sweet Loving Here at Home)
A popular song from 1919
Words and music by Shelton Brooks
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- Johnny Moore was longing for
To go to gay Paree
He’d heard about the boulevards
And pretty girls you see
Johnny met a soldier boy
Who’d been away one year
He heard that he was goin’ away
And he whispered in his ear
Chorus:
Tell me why you want to go to Paree, Paree
Tell me why you crave ze Mad’moiselle
You can get a pretty girl named Carrie or Mary
Who can love ze Papa just as well
If you must have a French girl for a sweetheart
You don’t have to sail across the foam
Parlez vous is parlez vous
Why go a thousand miles or two
You can get the same sweet loving here at home
- Johnny said, “I hear they have a way
That’s all their own”
His soldier pal said, “Look here boy
You can learn it right at home”
They invented lots of tricks
But nothing new I fear
And we’ve improved them quite a lot
Since we brought them over here”