How You Gonna Keep 'Em Down on the Farm?

DESCRIPTION: "Reuben, Reuben, I've been thinking, said his wifey dear," that the boys would soon return to the farm. But, "How you gonna keep 'em down on the farm After they've seen Paree?" Or keep them at work when they've seen Broadway?
AUTHOR: Words: Sam M. Lewis and Joe Young / Music: Walter Donaldson (source: Arthur-WhenThisBloodyWarIsOver)
EARLIEST DATE: 1919 (sheet music by B. & S. Waterson)
KEYWORDS: husband wife soldier farming | Paris temptation
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
Arthur-WhenThisBloodyWarIsOver, p. 125, "How'ya Gonna Keep 'Em Down on the Farm?" (1 text)
Roud #25956
ALTERNATE TITLES:
How Ya Gonna Keep 'Em Down on the Farm?
NOTES [67 words]: Edward Foote Gardner, Popular Songs of the Twentieth Century: Volume I -- Chart Detail & Encyclopedia 1900-1949, Paragon House, 2000, p. 271, estimates that this was the fourth most popular song in America in 1919, peaking at #1 in May 1919 (#1 for the year being J. H. Remick's "Till We Meet Again"). The sheet version by B. and S. Waterson sold more than a million copies, according to Gardner. - RBW
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