PLENTY OF SUNSHINE
(Buddy De Sylva / Lew Brown / Ray Henderson)


Lou Gold's Virginia Creepers (vocal: Annette Hanshaw) - 1927
Fred "Sugar" Hall & His Sugar Babies (vocal: Arthur Fields) - 1927
Lee & Bergere - 1927
The Harmonizers - 1927
Vincent Lopez & His Orch. (Instr.) - 1927
Will Quintrell & His Tivolians (vocal: Len Maurice) - 1928
Jack Hylton & His Orch. (vocal: Jackson, Ternent, D'Amato) - 1928




As recorded by LEE & BERGERE (THE HUMMING BIRDS):


Two little rubes came to the city
Oh, what a thrill they had
One little rube was glad
One little rube was sad

That little rube just left the city
Left his little pard
Here's the note that he wrote
Upon a postal card

I'm hobnobbin' with my horse Dobbin
I left my job in the city
I'm sittin' pretty with plenty of sunshine

Wash my face in the old tin basin
And start in racin' with Rover
We bubble over with plenty of sunshine

Read my paper 'neath an apple tree
No skyscrapers keep the sun from me

The house is roomy, the garden's bloomy
There's no place gloomy to mope in
I'm in the open with plenty of sunshine

While you're in the traffic jam
Picture me, say, here I am
Sittin' with my fishing pole
Let the sunshine in my soul

While you gaze at four bare walls
If you see my overalls
Hangin' on a hickory limb
'Cause the brook's there, take a swim

Plenty of fun, plenty of air
Plenty of sun, plenty to spare
Brother, if you're not in pain
You'll be on that morning train

I'm hobnobbin' with my horse Dobbin
I left my job in the city
I'm sittin' pretty with plenty of sunshine

Wash my face in the old tin basin
Startin' racin' with Rover
We bubble over with plenty of sunshine

Like you ?????, you forget your blues
When that rooster wakes you in the morning

May dress funny, we got no money
The milk and honey awaits you
Come back to nature and plenty of sunshine



(Transcribed by Mel Priddle - March 2018)