Historic Sheet Music Collection
Title
Document Type
Score
Links to Recordings at the Internet Archive
https://archive.org/details/78_crinoline-days_paul-whiteman-and-his-orchestra-irving-berlin_gbia0015607b
https://archive.org/details/78_crinoline-days_the-columbians-dance-orchestra-de-luxe-berlin_gbia0012504b
Publication Date
1922
Lyrics
Back to the olden
Days that were golden
Memory often strays
Before anyone could gaze At Molly’s and Mary’s little ankle displays.
Time with its changes
Often arranges
Styles that become that craze.
But I am yeaning
To be returning
Back to those crinoline days
[Chorus]
In those dear old Crinoline days,
Old fashioned people with their old fashioned ways.
When the girl a fellow courted
Was the girl he married and supported.
Back in eighteen seventy-four
Rosy complexions weren’t bought in a store;
Granny and granddaddy longingly gaze
Back to those Crinoline days.
Recommended Citation
Berlin, Irving, "Crinoline Days" (1922). Historic Sheet Music Collection. 242.
https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/sheetmusic/242
The views expressed in this paper are solely those of the author.
Comments
Crinoline Blues
Words and Music by Irving Berlin
New York (1607); Irving Berlin Inc. (1922)
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