Lyr Add: Way Down Yonder in New Orleans

Subject: Lyr Add: WAY DOWN YONDER IN NEW ORLEANS
From: Joe Offer
Date: 14 Nov 98 - 06:18 PM

This was requested in another thread.
-Joe Offer-

WAY DOWN YONDER IN NEW ORLEANS
(Henry Creamer and J. Turner Layton, 1922)

Guess! Where do you think I'm goin'
when the winds start blowin' strong?
Guess! Where do you think I'm goin'
when the nights start growin' long?

I ain't goin' East, I ain't goin' West,
I ain't goin' over the cuckoo's nest;
I'm bound for the town that I love best,
Where life is one sweet song:

CHORUS:
Way down yonder in New Orleans
In the land of dreamy scenes
There's a garden of Eden,
That's what I mean

Creole babies with flashing eyes
Softly whisper with tender sighs,
"Stop! Oh! won't you give your lady fair
A little smile?"

Stop! You bet your life you'll linger there
A little while,
There is heaven right here on earth
(2nd time: they've got angels right here on earth,)
With those beautiful queens
(2nd time: with those little blue jeans,)
Way down yonder in New Orleans

Guess! What do you think I'm thinkin'
when you think I'm thinkin' wrong?
Guess! What do you think I'm thinkin'
when I'm thinkin' all night long?

I ain't thinkin' this, I ain't thinkin' that,
I cannot be thinkin' about your hat;
My heart does not start to pit-a-pat
Unless I hear this song:

(Chorus)

…..I cannot be thinkin' about your hat??? Maybe that's why this verse is forgotten….

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Way Down Yonder in New Orleans
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 02 Oct 07 - 08:05 AM

You can see the sheet music at Indiana University Sheet Music Collections.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Way Down Yonder in New Orleans
From: Rasener
Date: 02 Oct 07 - 08:45 AM

Freddie Cannon great version by him.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Way Down Yonder in New Orleans
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 02 Oct 07 - 09:09 AM

Didn't Gary "US" Bonds do it too?

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Way Down Yonder in New Orleans
From: Rasener
Date: 02 Oct 07 - 09:46 AM

I think you are thinking of this one Richard

Gary US Bonds

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Way Down Yonder in New Orleans
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 02 Oct 07 - 02:49 PM

Blossom Seeley introduced this song. With Bennie Fields, she was a vaudeville star. Perhaps the 'hat' had meaning in her routines.

Hear an instrumental by the "Georgians" on Red Hot Jazz:
Way Down Yonder

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Way Down Yonder in New Orleans
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 02 Oct 07 - 03:19 PM

The cd, "Legendary Voices of Vaudeville," track 13- Blossom Seeley singing "Way Down Yonder in New Orleans."

36 tracks, some interesting, but $25.50 (at Amazon.com) a little steep unless your interest in vaudeville is strong. "Darktown Strutters Ball" sung by Elsie Janis also on this collection.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Way Down Yonder in New Orleans
From: Rasener
Date: 02 Oct 07 - 04:05 PM

Joe Brown Darktown Strutters Ball - that was a good en.