Historic Sheet Music Collection
Title
Document Type
Score
Links to Recordings at the Internet Archive
https://archive.org/details/78_where-do-we-go-from-here_american-quartet-howard-johnson-percy-wenrich_gbia0013583b
https://archive.org/details/78_where-do-we-go-from-here_arthur-fields-and-peerless-quartette-johnson-and-wenrich_gbia0016811b
https://archive.org/details/78_where-do-we-go-from-here_bob-crosby-and-his-orchestra-the-bob-cats-howard-johnson_gbia0010880b
Publication Date
1918
Lyrics
VERSE 1
Paddy Mack drove a hack
Up and down Broadway,
Pat had one expression and he’d use it ev’ry day;
Anytime he’d grab a fare, to take them for a ride,
Paddy jumped upon the seat, cracked his whip and cried:
CHORUS 1
“Where do we go from here, boys,
Where do we go from here?
Anywhere from Harlem to a Jersey city pier;”
When Pat would spy a pretty girl, he’d whisper in her ear,
“Oh joy, Oh boy,
Where do we go from here?”
here?”
VERSE 2
One fine day, on Broadway,
Pat was driving fast,
When the street was blown to pieces
By a subway blast;
Down the hole poor Paddy went, a thinkin’ of his past,
The he says, says he, I think these words will be my last:
CHORUS 2
“Where do we go from here, boys,
Where do we go from here?
Paddy’s neck was in the wreck, but still he had no fear;
He saw a dead man next to him and whispered in his ear,
“Oh joy, Oh boy,
Where do we go from here?”
VERSE #
First of all, at the call,
When the war began,
Pat enlisted in the army as a fighting man;
When the drills began, they’d walk a hundred miles a day,
Tho’ the rest got tired, Paddy always used to say:
CHORUS 3
“Where do we go from here, boys,
Where do we go from here?
Slip a pill to Kaiser Bill and make him shed a tear;
And when we see the enemy we’ll shoot them in the rear,
He saw a dead man next to him and whispered in his ear,
“Oh joy, Oh boy,
Where do we go from here?”
Recommended Citation
Johnson, Howard and Wenrich, Percy, "Where Do We Go From Here" (1918). Historic Sheet Music Collection. 1729.
https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/sheetmusic/1729
The views expressed in this paper are solely those of the author.
Comments
Photograph: Blossom Seeley
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