Mudcat Café message #32419

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Thread #5645 Message #32419
Posted By: Frank Maher
13-Jul-98 - 12:04 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: The Hat My Father Wore upon St. Patrick's
Subject: Lyr Add: THE HAT MY FATHER WORE UPON ST. PATRICK'S

THE HAT MY FATHER WORE UPON ST. PATRICK'S DAY
As recorded by Billy Murray
(Music by Jean Schwartz, lyrics by William Jerome, 1909)

"Where did you get that hat?" folks ask me every day.
"Isn't it a nifty one?" I've often heard them say.
"Keep it on. It's funny. Can't you see the people smile?"
It keeps me busy telling them the history of this tile.
CHORUS: It's the hat my dear old father wore upon St. Patrick's day.
Talk about respect, with his head erect, as he marched along Broadway!
"Not a man in line looked half so fine," my dear old mother used to say,
"As your father did with that old-time lid, upon St. Patrick's day."
I wouldn't trade that hat for anything on earth.
I keep it as a relic of the land of daddy's birth.
A finer skypiece never covered grey-haired silv'ry locks.
I wouldn't even change it for a Dunlap or a Knox.
CHORUS

Note from Joe Offer: The Internet Movie Database says that Gene Kelly sang and danced this number in the 1949 movie, Take Me Out to the Ball Game. Music was by Jean Schwartz, lyrics by William Jerome.