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Song lyrics to Dear Old Donegal, written by Steve Graham

Dear Old Donegal song lyrics

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Song lyrics to Dear Old Donegal, written by Steve Graham

Dear Old Donegal is an Irish-American song made popular by Bing Crosby and written by Steve Graham. The song has an ‘upbeat’ rhythm and is meant to be the words of a poor Irishman who has to leave his homeland to go to United States, however, he gets to return to his native County Donegal after becoming successful in the United States.

It’s appeared in numerous movie and television shows, including Gentleman Jim, F Troop, The Andy Griffith Show, I Love Lucy, and many others.

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Song lyrics to It Had to Be You (1924), music by Isham Jones, lyrics by Gus Kahn

It Had to Be You song lyrics

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Song lyrics to It Had to Be You (1924), music by Isham Jones, lyrics by Gus Kahn

It Had to Be You was performed by Ruth Etting in the 1936 short film Melody in May, by Priscilla Lane in the 1939 film The Roaring Twenties, by Ginger Rogers and Cornel Wilde in the 1947 film It Had to Be You, in the 1944 film Mr. Skeffington, by Danny Thomas in the 1951 film I’ll See You in My Dreams (based loosely upon the lives of Gus Kahn and his wife Grace LeBoy Kahn), and Joanne Dru sang a portion of it in 1955’s Hell On Frisco Bay. Gene Kelly and Marie McDonald danced to it in the 1947 film Living in a Big Way, and it was also performed by Dooley Wilson in the 1942 film Casablanca, George Murphy in Show Business (1944), Betty Hutton in the 1945 film Incendiary Blonde, and Diane Keaton in the 1977 film Annie Hall. It also appeared in the 1992 film A League of Their Own by Megan Cavanagh.

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Home on the Range is a classic western folk song sometimes called the "unofficial anthem" of the American West. The lyrics were originally written by Dr. Brewster M. Higley of Smith County, Kansas, in a poem entitled "My Western Home" in 1872. In 1947, it became the state song of the U.S. state of Kansas. In 2010, members of the Western Writers of America chose it as one of the Top 100 western songs of all time.

Home On The Range

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Home On The Range song lyrics

Home on the Range is a classic western folk song sometimes called the “unofficial anthem” of the American West. The lyrics were originally written by Dr. Brewster M. Higley of Smith County, Kansas, in a poem entitled “My Western Home” in 1872. In 1947, it became the state song of the U.S. state of Kansas. In 2010, members of the Western Writers of America chose it as one of the Top 100 western songs of all time.

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Song lyrics to The Old Chisholm Trail, this version written by Moe Bandy & Tex Ritter

The Old Chisholm Trail

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Song lyrics to The Old Chisholm Trail, this version written by Moe Bandy & Tex Ritter

The Old Chisholm Trail is a cowboy song first published in 1910 by John Lomax in his book Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads. It dates back to the 1870s, when it was among the most popular songs sung by cowboys during that era. Based on an English lyrical song that dates back to 1640, “The Old Chisholm Trail” was modified by the cowboy idiom. It has been recorded by the world’s most popular Western singers, including Harry McClintock, Gene Autry, Roy Rogers, Bing Crosby, Randy Travis, and Michael Martin Murphey. There are arguably thousands of versions of the song.

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Down by the Old Mill Stream song lyrics

Down by the Old Mill Stream

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Down by the Old Mill Stream song lyrics

Down by the Old Mill Stream was written by Tell Taylor in 1908. It was one of the most popular songs of the early 20th century. The publisher, Forster Music Publisher, Inc., sold 4 million copies.

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