I'd Like to Take You Away

Authors

Hugo Riesenfeld
Harry B. Smith

Document Type

Score

Publication Date

1919

Comments

I'd Like to Take You Away
Music by Hugo Riesenfeld
Lyric by Harry B. Smith

New York: Published by Waterson Berlin & Snyder Co.

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Lyrics

[Verse 1]
I'm tired of cabarets, and grape juice and tea;
To jazz on ginger ale is no joy to me.
I hear the call of the wild, I'd be a caveman;
And live in simple style,
On some tropic isle.

[Chorus 1]
I'd like to take you away
And so when ever you say;
"Let's go!"
To a little island in the sunny southern sea
That just suits me.
Where there'd be nothing to do
And there'd be no one but you; and you!
You would be my Honolulu hula honey Lou.
Will you?
Maybe, Oh! please; shall I? all right; Good!

[Verse 2]
No more gay for you, you must settle down;
We'll wed and go to live in some country town.
You'll be domestic and tame,
Home ev'ry evning;
I'd have you dead to rights,
know where you were nights.

[Chorus 2]
I'd like to take you away
And so when ever you say;
"Let's go!"
To a Jersy villafe where at home you'd have to stay.
That worries me.
Where you would turn in at dark
And you'd get up with the lark; some lark!
You would be my truly rural roorallooral jay.
Will you?
Maybe, Oh! please; sometime, perhaps; Good!

Recommended Citation

Riesenfeld, Hugo and Smith, Harry B., "I'd Like to Take You Away" (1919). Historic Sheet Music Collection. 629.
https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/sheetmusic/629