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There'll Be A Hot Time For The Old Men Whle The Young Men Are Away - Lyrics
Composer
Meyer, George W.
Lyricist
Clark, Grant
Publisher
Leo Feist Inc.
Place of Publication
New York (N.Y.)
Lyrics
There’ll be a Hot Time for the Old Men (While the Young Men are Away) Verse: All the girls are grieving ‘cause the boys are leaving, gone to face the foe, But the men of fifty, they feel mighty nifty, they don’t have to go. Young men they are sailing ev’ry day who will love the girls they’re away? Refrain: There’ll be a hot time for the old men while the young men are away. When the young men go to France, Oh won’t the old men have a wonderful chance, To raise the dickens with all the chickens they’ll have everything their way. 1. Now that the young men have all disappeared Ev’ry young girl grabs a man with a beard. 2. All the Old men read the papers and laughed when all the young men were caught in the draft. There’ll be a hot time for the old men while the young men are away. Verse: While the young men stayed here, they had ev’ry maid here things have changed somehow, And the real old fellow never was as mellow as he is right now. It’s not very hard to figure them all the old men thi
Repository
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Sousa Archives and Center for American Music
Rights
No Copyright - United States
Original Location
Record Series 12/9/96
Series 2, Box 21, Folder 1
Local Identifier
2014_12996_700
Collection Title
James Edward Myers Sheet Music Collection, 1836-1986
There’ll be a Hot Time for the Old Men (While the Young Men are Away) Verse: All the girls are grieving ‘cause the boys are leaving, gone to face the foe, But the men of fifty, they feel mighty nifty, they don’t have to go. Young men they are sailing ev’ry day who will love the girls they’re away? Refrain: There’ll be a hot time for the old men while the young men are away. When the young men go to France, Oh won’t the old men have a wonderful chance, To raise the dickens with all the chickens they’ll have everything their way. 1. Now that the young men have all disappeared Ev’ry young girl grabs a man with a beard. 2. All the Old men read the papers and laughed when all the young men were caught in the draft. There’ll be a hot time for the old men while the young men are away. Verse: While the young men stayed here, they had ev’ry maid here things have changed somehow, And the real old fellow never was as mellow as he is right now. It’s not very hard to figure them all the old men thi
Repository
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Sousa Archives and Center for American Music
Rights
No Copyright - United States
Original Location
Series 2, Box 21, Folder 1
Record Series 12/9/96
Local Identifier
2014_12996_700
Collection Title
James Edward Myers Sheet Music Collection, 1836-1986
There’ll be a Hot Time for the Old Men (While the Young Men are Away) Verse: All the girls are grieving ‘cause the boys are leaving, gone to face the foe, But the men of fifty, they feel mighty nifty, they don’t have to go. Young men they are sailing ev’ry day who will love the girls they’re away? Refrain: There’ll be a hot time for the old men while the young men are away. When the young men go to France, Oh won’t the old men have a wonderful chance, To raise the dickens with all the chickens they’ll have everything their way. 1. Now that the young men have all disappeared Ev’ry young girl grabs a man with a beard. 2. All the Old men read the papers and laughed when all the young men were caught in the draft. There’ll be a hot time for the old men while the young men are away. Verse: While the young men stayed here, they had ev’ry maid here things have changed somehow, And the real old fellow never was as mellow as he is right now. It’s not very hard to figure them all the old men thi
Repository
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Sousa Archives and Center for American Music
Rights
No Copyright - United States
Original Location
Series 2, Box 21, Folder 1
Record Series 12/9/96
Local Identifier
2014_12996_700
Collection Title
James Edward Myers Sheet Music Collection, 1836-1986