Show j homesick for old halsted A ballad of bubbly creek J Q all around the world we ve wandered ranged through every foreign land heard the bow bells chime in london sauntered through the roaring strand wo have sailed to san francisco where they hiked in forty nine and have roamed through old calcutta where the greasy takers whine up and down big british india through rangoon and mandalay have we sashayed like a gypsy always thirsting for the tray in a cattle ship we clustered when our currency ran shy and we hid us in the steerage from the captain s furtive eye always roaming like ulysses with a fierce and hungry soul through the east we sashayed blithely north and south from pole to pole but the bells of old chicago lured us from across the foam oh the gunny side of state street and the haunting spell of home here the keen breeze off the prairie tans your hot and fevered brain and the witchery of the city soothes your heartache and your pain lonely exiles have we wandered over treacherous alien foam always yearning tor chicago and our friends and girls at home no matter where you wander you not escape her epel tou 11 be homesick for the city as the ocean claims sea shell bubbly creek looms on your vision you can emell it tor a mile and the fragrance ot the stock yard knocks you dizzy for awhile and the twenty storied buildings seem to scrape the sapphire sky and the saucy tug boats darting skimming swallows fly and the high bridge spans the river lift ing up it haughty head and the foaming current snarling with its cargo ot the dead bubbly creek what memories cluster round thy hollowed fragrant name bubbly creek Is bright emblazoned on the starry scroll of I 1 ame bubbly creek where oft I 1 wandered a a restless barefoot boy swimming in the murky waters oh what fierce and soothing joyl take me back to old chicago far acroca the sundering spray harbor lights of home are gleaming there our soft eyed sweethearts stay I 1 am sick of foreign places chicago lures me to her side take me back to old chicago far across the great divider G registry stry division chicago |