When the Bees Make Honey

(Down in Sunny Alabam’)
A popular song from 1919
Words by Sam M. Lewis
Music by Walter Donaldson

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The sheet music:

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Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:

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Lyrics

1. I just feel like telling the world I’m happy and gay
   I just feel like telling you why I’m feeling that way
   This is just the time of the year
   When bees start to buzz
   And I’ve got a bee in my bonnet, simply because

Chorus
When the bees make honey down in sunny Alabam’
That’s when I said, I’d be sending a telegram
Down to a honeysuckled home
Where my folks live all alone
They’re like a pair of honey bees in a honey comb
I’m gonna make a bee-line straight for home
That’s what I am, and I’ve a plan
To buzz around with my honey-lamb
Some Sunday afternoon, if I don’t get stung
There’ll be a honeymoon when the bees make honey
Down in sunny, Oh! you Alabam’

2. I will be the busiest bee that you ever knew
   Sipping honey all thro’ the day
   That’s just what I’ll do
   When the bees are buzzin’ away
   Near some Rosemary
   How I love to bumble around
   Just take it from me

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Sung here by Laurence Rubenstein: