Ma Mère

Written for: The Wonder Bar (1931)
Performer: Al Jolson
Lyric: Irving Caesar & Al Jolson
Music: Harry Warren
Year: 1931
Original publisher: Harms, Inc.

Verse:

Fields of cotton,
You're forgotten,
They tell me you're not wanted here;
Songs of "Mammy"
And "Alabamy,"
Would ruin this Paris atmosphere.
No one wants a song that's sentimental,
So, I'll sing a song that's continental.

Chorus:

Ma mère, mon père,
Away down south in France on the Rivier',
In old Montmarté when shades of night are falling
My cabin home in Monte Carlo's calling.
Ma mère, mon père,
I'm gonna find a fast chemin de fer,
I've saved a million francs for my vacation,
I just can't wait to see that old plantation;
And who is gonna greet me at the station?
Ma mère, mon père,
Et mon frère.