Salt Lake Telegram | 1902-02-03 | Page 7 | Smithy Goes Way Back

SMITHY GOES WAY BACK BAC I Musical Authority Traces Popular Phrase Phrae to t Its It Place of Coinage Cing I. I The popular Phra phrase Go G way back b k and sit down dow has ha been credited to many may mayI I sources s said id a music publisher but the te true story story has as never been ben printed One night about a a. ye year r ago several seea colored colore sports gathered in a saloon In the Tenderloin owned by a negro negro and patronized patron atron- atron ed chiefly by men anna me of his own race race In Inthe Inthe Inthe the party paty was wa-s wa Smithy the tenor and Bully Buly the tout tut Smithy came from rom the te West and dressed In the height of fashion while Bullys Bully's Buly's home was in the te South Bully Buly had had ha quite quie a turn of I-I I Ill luck I ck and nd his attire suffered in consequence 1 Smithy began began kidding him about It Finaly Finally Buly Bully got angry He le sized size Smithy head to foot for few seconds up up from nea o foo a second and then s sailed i J iii In it he began I Yo am er dude yo yo yr am bg contemptuously To Yo done come round I here an try t lit lt de folks know dat fiat yo yo a am livin on easy eay street Dont yo ye fink man an dat dam dem de horses hore am a gwine t run fo fr yo 0 in de snow dis winter Yo Ye Yo aint ant no steel rod To Yo kin git broke I Say do yo see dat chair char yonder yonder yon yon- der den by dat stove T Take man mah mh advice an anI ango ango I go go goway way back an sit down dow an wen yo git St dere dere stay t dere an dont don't come e CO back no nomore nomore n more moe more Understand honey honey I Smithy hy did go way back and sit down don and was not heard herd of the rest ret of the te night Al AI Johns a 0 colored musician who night was was' present thought the phrase phrae was wa unique and the next day he told Elmer Bowman a negro song writer about abut it Johns thought it I would mae make naico a good title for a song so Bowman wrote some someI I I tte verses v which Johns put to music In the story of the song Bowman stuck t to the Incidents n that took place in the h saloon o t that I night and when the song was published it i at once became popular 1 Tile The he phrase phrase was used a a good deal by bythe bythe bythe the opposite political parties partes in i the te last lat campaign NeW amp ip N New eW York Sun