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Thread #52811   Message #1181246
Posted By: Jim Dixon
08-May-04 - 02:51 PM
Thread Name: Quakers Held to a Higher Standard...
Subject: Lyr Add: THERE'S A QUAKER DOWN IN QUAKER TOWN
Here's the song that Joe Offer mentioned above.

Lyrics below from Duke University's 'Historic American Sheet Music' collection:

THERE'S A QUAKER DOWN IN QUAKER TOWN.
Words, David Berg. Music, Alfred Solman. 1916.

Two hours' ride from old Broadway,
There is a sleepy town, they say.
"Old Philadelphia," you opened my eyes,
And I apologize.

CHORUS: There's a Quaker down in Quaker town.
When I am 'round, she sighs.
But down in her heart, I know, she's not so slow,
For, oh, oh, oh, oh! Those eyes!
Like the waters still, she's very deep.
She knows a heap, I found.
She has that "Meet me later" look, and oh! she knows her book,
This little Quaker down in Quaker town.

Old William Penn, please pardon me.
One of your sons I want to be.
You love your Quakers, and I love one, too.
That's why I'm strong for you. CHORUS

[The Virtual Gramophone has a recording by Albert Campbell and Henry Burr, from 1916.]