From “New Years Eve In a San Francisco Cafe”, 1913
Words by Warren Piper
Music by Ernie Burnett
Arranged by Theo. H. Northrup
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- Way back east to New York City
Where the girls are neat and pretty
Went a Frisco boy one day
Boasting of the Western places
And of San Francisco’s graces
He soon had things coming his own way
As he strolled along Broadway
He met a maiden who was from old Frisco Town
Pleadingly she asked him just to take her back
As she gazed in his big eyes of brown
Chorus:
Take me back to Frisky, risky, Frisco Town
Never let me go away, my honey
On the Pacific Coast, I want to be the most
Take me where the air is balmy
Where they do the Texas Tommy
Let’s go to the midway where the rag never ceases
Hear that old piano man a raggin’ those pieces
Take me back to Frisky, risky Frisco Town
That’s where I want to be
That is the place for me
In that Frisky Frisco Town
- As the train was fastly speeding
And behind them they were leaving
New York City lights so bright
Then her heart was light and cheery
Life to her was no more dreary
For in Frisco town she’d be that night
She said, “We’ll go to the places
Where you used to go and turn night into day”
As they crossed the bay for dear old Frisco town
Then to him with a smile she did say
Sung by Laurence Rubenstein: