From the show “Dance and Grow Thin,” 1917. Words and Music by Irving Berlin. Cover Art by Albert W. Barbelle. Copyright ©2 Apr 1917. Sheet Music from the collection of Michael Deatz.
Sheet Music
Accompaniment
Lyrics
I’ve been a traveling chap
Traveled all over the map
From London to Jamaica
Where they make the ginger snap
I’ve seen America through
Right down to Kalamazoo
And talking ’bout America
Let me say to you
Refrain
There’s something nice about the South
A paradise is ‘way down South
It seems that nowadays
They love to sing it’s praise
A song of Dixie lingers in ev’ry singer’s mouth
There’s something sweet about their ways
The girls you meet are oh! so diff’rent
Tennessee, Florida, Alabam’
Fav’rite children of Uncle Sam
There’s something nice about the South
Performance
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