Show ONCE OVER Chattanooga I Br H. I. Phillips I ALL MEN who had their WILL sweethearts at Tennessee waltzes kindly raise their right And all there must be Any woman or who lost a partner while dancing in up with your I This thing cries out for I careful A song in which the singer deplores the purloining and misappropriating of his gul during the has swept the It deluges the country from movie night phonograph and From the feeling put into it by the singers and the deep reaction manifested by audiences it would seem that in every American mind is the heart-breaking memory of a stolen waltz sniffles and sobs are to be heard In countless homes as thousands of singers wall sentimentally of the of The Year T h e Tennessee Walts If even a small parentage of the people who seem to understand such an experience have really come through three things seem There is hardly a man or woman in an American home who hasn't danced in Tennessee under conditions of great Those who went to such a dance a partner and never saw him or her again are The Stolen Tennessee Woman Situation may be partly responsible for the and at times screwball mood of the American Our efforts to explain the mood of nostalgia which comes over people listening to the song have not been too Approaching one gent who seemed visibly moved by we did you last dance in He me it was West and it was during the Pennsylvania Polka I Bug will We tackled a man whose eyes were as he swayed with the mournful Putting him on the we did you lose Chattanooga or was either Passaic or Beaver New he never felt like penetrating the deep south since that unlucky did It we Ut her dance with a big handsome guy who seemed he he stole we he brought her back and left her on my I married her and have bad to live with her ever What do you think I'm weeping |