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Thread #33317   Message #721256
Posted By: Jim Dixon
01-Jun-02 - 05:54 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Go Way Back and Sit Down
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Go Way Back and Sit Down
The library at Virginia Union University, Richmond, VA lists this in its catalog:

"Go Way Back and Sit Down" words by Elmer Bowman, music by Al Johns, published by F.A. Mills, 1901.

Millersville University, Millersville, PA also has it (but not online).

It was also recorded by Silas Leachman in 1901.

Apparently "Go way back and sit down" was a popular catch phrase in the 1890's, but I couldn't determine where it came from. Here's a quote from a short story called "Head and Shoulders" by F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1922:

Sort of a euphemism for "go to hell" I suppose.