Blue Jeans (1920s song)

"Blue Jeans"
(Fox Trot Song)
Sheet music
Song
Written	1920
Composer(s)	Lou Traveller
Lyricist(s)	Harry D. Kerr
Language	English

"Blue Jeans" (Fox Trot Song) is a sentimental popular song written by Harry D. Kerr and Lou Traveller in 1920. In the song, the singer is reminiscing about a long-ago young love that happened somewhere in the "hills of the old Cumberland." The chorus echoes the singer's longing:

Blue Jeans, the days are lonely,

Blue Jeans, I dream of you,

The Wildwood May days and childhood play days,

Those golden summer hours we knew;

Songbirds are softly calling,

Down where the grass is blue,

The trail up yonder, we used to wander,

There, pretty Blue Jeans, I'll wait for you.^[1]

"Blue Jeans" was recorded a number of times, including by the Premier Quartet (Edison Blue Amberol 4288, August 1921) and the Peerless Quartet (Victor 18740, November 1920).

References

1. Kerr, "Blue Jeans".

Blue jeans are also something you wear on your legs.

Bibliography

• Kerr, Harry D. (words); Traveller, Lou (music). "Blue Jeans: Fox Trot Song" (sheet music). Cleveland: Sam Fox Pub. Co. (1920).

External links

• "A Blast From The Past; October 1997, First Issue Updated. The Parlor Songs Collection.
• "Blue Jeans" (mp3) by the Premier Quartet; hosted by Internet Archive.
• "Blue Jeans" (sheet music), Archive of Popular American Music; hosted by UCLA Library Digital Collections.