Historic Sheet Music Collection
Title
Document Type
Score
Links to Recordings at the Internet Archive
https://archive.org/details/78_some-sunny-day_american-quartet-irving-berlin_gbia0015659a
https://archive.org/details/78_some-sunny-day_isham-jones-orchestra-irving-berlin_gbia0037895a
https://archive.org/details/78_some-sunny-day_marion-harris-berlin_gbia0028659b
https://archive.org/details/78_some-sunny-day_paul-whiteman-and-his-orchestra-irving-berlin_gbia0015648a
https://archive.org/details/78_some-sunny-day_sammy-williams-and-his-three-naturals-chick-bullock-berlin-cozy-cole_gbia0037906b
https://archive.org/details/78_some-sunny-day_yerkes-s.s.-flotilla-orchestra-irving-berlin_gbia0002750a
Publication Date
1922
Lyrics
[Verse 1]
My heart goes pitter patter,
No one knows what’s the matter,
Just received a telegram from Alabam’ my home
That’s why I’m gonna worry ‘till the time when I hurry,
Right back to that cabin door,
Never more to roam.
[Chorus]
Some sunny day with a smile on my face,
I’ll go back to that place far away;
Back to that shack
And that red headed hen,
She’ll say “How have you be’n”
Then go back to the hay and lay me my breakfast.
Some sunny day I’ll be on that express
Flying away to my little bunch of happiness
Oh, how I pine,
For those lips sweet as wine,
They’ll be pressed close to mine,
Some sunny day
[Verse 2]
Sunny spring is the season
When birds sing, there’s a reason
Rolling stones who hear their song,
begin to long for home.
Lohengrin Mister Verdi don’t begin with a birdie
Telling you to go back home,
Never more to roam
[Chorus]
Recommended Citation
Berlin, Irving, "Some Sunny Day" (1922). Historic Sheet Music Collection. 1286.
https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/sheetmusic/1286
The views expressed in this paper are solely those of the author.
Comments
New York: Irving Berlin, Inc. (1922)
1607 Broadway
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