A popular song written around 1880 by Al Johns (apparently words and music); it is the ground of a parodic booster song for Everett, Washington, dated 1902, of whose text I read "Lyrics for the song were written by the Everett Chamber of Commerce and first sung on February 5,1902, to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the filing of the Everett Land Company's Plat of Everett." (Washington Songs and Lore, comp. Linda Allen). This has got to be one of the stellar examples of songwriting by committee (and presumably a somewhat right-wing committee at that); I'm interested in seeing the original to see what they were working from and how impressed I ought to be with their product. Being a patriotic and stalwart Seattleite, I am of course less than impressed with the overt content of the parody ;-)

Liland