BACK BACK BACK TO BALTIMORE

Respectfully dedicated to the Kings of Black face-McIntyre & Heath

Words by Harry H. Williams; Music by Egbert Van Alystyne
Copyright, 1904 Shapiro, Remick & Co.


March tempo

1.
Forty below coon from a show,
Sits by a water tank out in the snow,
He looped the loop with a cheap troupe
And then the man-a-ger he flew the coup,
why does he wait, out there so late,
Just for a com-mon old ev'ry day freight,
He's broke you know so is the show
And thats why he cries, this much is so.

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I'm going back back back
To Bal-ti-more
This act-ing bus' ness
cert'n-ly makes me sore.
A black face song or a mins-trel joke
won't entice this fool-ish moke.
I ne-ver cared for home so much be-fore,
They said we'd stop at swell ho-tels gal-lore,
we on-ly stopped at them out-side the door,
The next man says I'm tal-en-ted,
I'll put a dent right in his head,
If I get back to Bal-ti-more.
Back Back

2.
Some fellow mean Said "Mr. Green,
You're the most comical man
I've ever seen, But he took a reef,
in his belief That I was as funny
as McIntyre Heath I went and spent
seven weeks rent.For a plug hat,
now I aint got a cent,
Here I am broke,that hat in soak,
If I act again, I hope I choke.

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