From the sheet music at Mississippi State University - where it is erroneously listed in their catalog as having been published in 1919; and that is why, I suppose, they have made sheet music images viewable online. I don't know what part of this is "American"; I suppose it is the verses.


UNDERNEATH THE ARCHES
By Bud Flanagan
Additional American lyric by Joseph McCarthy
New York: Robbins Music Corp.
by arrangement with Campbell, Connelly & Co., Ltd., London ©1932.

1. The bridge down by the river, with arches overhead,
It's homelike there
To me; that's where
Each night I make my bed.

CHORUS: Underneath the arches, I dream my dreams away.
Underneath the arches, on cobblestones I lay.
Ev'ry night you'll find me tired out and worn,
Happy when the daylight comes creeping, heralding the dawn.
Sleeping when it's raining, and sleeping when it's fine,
I hear the trains rattling by above.
Pavement is my pillow, no matter where I stray.
Underneath the arches, I dream my dreams away.

2. It's just a friendly jungle; it has an open door,
A lovely spot.
Drop in; why not?
There's always room for more.