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Thread #104993   Message #4203322
Posted By: GUEST,.gargoye
02-Jun-24 - 02:35 PM
Thread Name: ADD: Where Do You Go from Here (Arkwright)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Where Do You Go from Here (Arkwright)
The version I have known and played for 50 years came from a piano bench in a state park. The ranger said, "Take them all, someone will just use them for firestarters.

Where Do We Go From Here?
published 1918
Written by Percy Wenrich and Howard Johnson 
Performed: Arthur Fields
SCORE/SHEET MUSIC https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/sheetmusic/1729

Pad-dy Mack drove a hack up and down Broad-way,
Pat had one ex-pres-sion and he'd use it ev-'ry day,
An-y time he'd grab a fare, to take them for a ride,
Pad-dy jumped up-on the seat, - cracked his whip and cried:

First Chorus:
"Where do we go from here, boys? Where do we go from here?"
An-y-where from Har-lem to a Jer-sey Cit-y pier,
When Pat would spy a pret-ty girl, he'd whis-per in her ear:
"Oh, joy! Oh, boy! Where do we go from here?"

Second Verse
One fine day, on Broad-way, Pat was driv-ing fast,
When the street was blown to pie-ces by a sub-way blast,
Down the hole poor Pad-dy went, a-think-ing of his past,
Then he says, says he, I think these words will be my last:

Second Chorus
"Where do we go from here, boys? Where do we go from here?"
Pad-dy's neck was in the wreck, but still he had no fear,
He saw a dead man next to him and whis-pered in his ear:
"Oh, joy! Oh, boy! Where do we go from here?"

Third Verse
First of all, at the call, when the war be-gan,
Pat en-list-ed in the ar-my as a fight-ing man,
When the drills be-gan they'd walk a hun-dred miles a day,
Tho' the rest got tir-ed, Pad-dy al-ways used to say:

Third Chorus
"Where do we go from here, boys? Where do we go from here?"
Slip a pill to Kai-ser Bill and make him shed a tear,
And when we see the en-e-my we'll shoot them in the rear,
"Oh, joy! Oh, boy! Where do we go from here?"

Sincerely,
Gargoyle

Light hearted fun stage type piece