Lyr Req: In Dear Old Georgia

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Dear Old Georgia'
From: masato sakurai
Date: 08 Sep 05 - 09:02 PM

"In Dear Old Georgia" (New York: Jerome H. Remick, 1905, sheet music) by Egbert Van Alstyne (1882-1951) is also at Historic American Sheet Music.

Subject: Lyr Add: IN DEAR OLD GEORGIA
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 08 Sep 05 - 04:51 PM

That's because your words are incomplete and out of order. It's all there in the sheet music.

IN DEAR OLD GEORGIA

Whenever the sun begins to shed its golden hue,
When birds begin to cease their songs of joy.
When roses droop their sleepy heads in meadows wet with dew
I dream of days when I was but a boy.

Chorus
In dear old Georgia, my Dixie land
It was there I met her and won her hand,
Among the pine trees I long to roam
In dear old Georgia my Southern home.

Remember how I swung you but the highest bough you'd miss
Although your best to reach it you would try.
Remember when the rope it broke and I gave you a kiss
That scared away the tear drop in your eye.

Though that was years ago, dear, yet something seems to say
When dreams of you and home I oft recall,
If I had stayed in Georgia, Nell, I might have felt today
That life was worth the living after all.

Harry Williams and Robert Van Alstyne, 1905

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Dear Old Georgia'
From: GUEST,newfiegirl
Date: 08 Sep 05 - 03:44 PM

That's where I found the song..but I'm not having any luck with putting it in order.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Dear Old Georgia'
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 08 Sep 05 - 03:01 PM

The sheet music for "In Dear Old Georgia" is in the Levy Sheet Music Collection:
http://levysheetmusic.mse.jhu.edu/cgi-bin/display.pl?record=147.094a.000&pages=4
In Dear Old Georgia

Subject: Lyr Req: Dear Old Georgia
From: GUEST
Date: 08 Sep 05 - 02:42 PM

Hi, can anybody help me put together the words to this song. I believe verses 1, 2, and 3 are in order.
Thanks. God Bless...newfiegirl.

IN DEAR OLD GEORGIA

(1) Whenever the sun begins to shed its golden hue
When birds began to cease their songs of joy
When roses droop their sleepy heads
In meadows wet with dew
I dream of days when I was but a boy.

(2) In dear old Georgia my Dixie land
It was there I met her and won her hand
Among the pine trees I long to roam
In dear old Georgia my Southern home.

(3) There's a little cottage half-hidden in the dell
And there's a lily padded swimming pool
But foremost in the picture I can see my little Nell
As side by side we romped away to school.

Remember when I'd swing you
The highest bough you'd miss
Though your best to reach it you would try
That scared away the teardrop in your eye

If I had stayed in Georgia
Nell I might have felt today
Dreams of you and home I oft recall
And that was years ago dear
Yet something seems to say
Life was all worth living after all