Show Me the Way to Go Home, Babe

DESCRIPTION: A lament on the effects of drinking and or rambling, perhaps with a request for forgiveness and/or floating blues lyrics. The whole is held together (if it is) by the chorus "Show me way to go home." The singer may have been drunk for many months
AUTHOR: Words: Archie Morrow / Music: Wilford Herbert (source: Fuld-BookOfWorldFamousMusic)
EARLIEST DATE: 1913 (Brown); sheet music apparently published 1901
KEYWORDS: drink home floatingverses
FOUND IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES (2 citations):
Brown/Belden/Hudson-FrankCBrownCollectionNCFolklore3 37, "Show Me the Way to Go Home, Babe" (7 short texts plus a single line fragment)
Brown/Schinhan-FrankCBrownCollectionNCFolklore5 37, "Show Me the Way to Go Home, Babe" (2 tunes plus text excerpts)
Roud #7859
RECORDINGS:
Gid Tanner & his Skillet Lickers, "Show Me the Way to Go Home" (Columbia 15404-D, 1929)
Henry Whitter & Fiddler Joe [Samuels], "Show Me the Way to Go Home" (OKeh 45061, 1926)
NOTES [30 words]: Note that this is not the famous "Show Me the Way to Go Home" by Irving King and published 1925, although Fuld in his entry on the Kng song hints that it may be derived from this. - RBW
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File: Br3037

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