A popular song from the year 1916.
Words by Jack Yellen.
Music by Albert Gumble.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- There was a time I used to like this town
Its gleaming lights and cabarets
But now I think I’d like to settle down
Where things are quiet, I guess I’ll try it
You know I used to live away down South
Before I started to roam
It may sound queer to you but I’m lonesome and blue
And I long to be back home
Chorus
Oh, how I miss my Old Plantation Home
Why did I leave it? Now I’m all alone
There’s no one here to cheer me when I’m blue
I miss that good old Southern “How d’y’ do”
I’m kind o’ lonesome for my family
They were awf’ly good to me
They’d do most anything to please me
Just wait until my mammy sees me
She’ll greet me with a “Welcome, honey
To your Old Plantation Home
- Down home a rooster wakes you ev’ry morn
To tell you when it’s breakfast time
You come downstairs and get your buckwheat cakes
While mammy’s makin’ some eggs and bacon
And in the ev’ning when your work is done
Beneath the silvery moon
There’s a musical treat and you shuffle your feet
To a good old ragtime tune
Sung here by Vancha March: