This comes from the Digital Collection of the New York Public Library.

Recording Artist: Bert Williams (photograph on sheet music cover)
Written by: Chris. Smith
Publishing: New York: Shapiro, Bernstein, & Co., 1920


I    W A N T   T O   K N O W   W H E R E   T O S T I   W E N T
(W H E N   H E   S A I D    'G O O D B Y E')

I has no education, but I'm blessed with Mother-Wit
On any kind of subject can converse a little bit
You know about them elephants' memory
Well mine is just that way
For when a thing is taught to me
Right in my brain 'twill stay
CHORUS


I ain't no music master, I can't even read a note
But I can 'member ev'ry thing that Mister Wagner wrote
I know of Mister Rubenstein's melody
I know some poems by Poe
I know who killed the poor Dead Sea
There's few things I don't know



CHORUS
I know just where Columbus went
When he sailed from sunny Spain
I know what causes thunder
And I know what makes it rain
My great grand-daddy left for me
A book on ancient history
I know about Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden
'Cos I've been readin'
I know about Peter and Paul
'Course I don't know it all
I know a little sum'thin' about what's up there in the sky
I can solve most any kind of mystery
But here's one thing that puzzles me

I want to know where Tosti went when he said
"GOODBYE FOREVER, GOODBYE FOREVER"
I want to know where Tosti went when he said "Good-Bye."