The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #3217   Message #2296688
Posted By: GUEST,Mallaidh
24-Mar-08 - 03:27 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Home James and Don't Spare the Horses
Subject: RE: Home, James
I am trying to find the words and verse tune to "Home James" so that I and friends can sing it. All I 'know' is that it was written by Fred Hillebrand (who he?) and recorded by Elsie Carlyle with Ambrose and his Orchestra in 1934 (this courtesy of Denis Norden). I have been searching the 'Net' for several hours now and getting nowhere!
The story concerns a young socialite who goes out to a ball and gets jilted by her beau so she wants to go home.