Billy Murray<br /><br />"On The Old Fall River Line"<br /><br />Victor 17427<br /><br />1913<br /><br />Words by William Jerome & Andrew B. Sterling<br /><br />Music by Harry Von Tilzer<br /><br />Talk about your spooning and mooning. <br />Take a trip to Boston. It's fine.<br /><br />Sailing up the bay, boys (hurrah, boys),<br />I was on the upper deck when I met mine.<br /><br />I said, "Sue, in your sailor suit, <br />you look perfectly cute!"<br /><br />On the old Fall River line, on the old Fall River line,<br />I fell for Susie’s line of talk, and Susie fell for mine.<br /><br />Then we fell in with a parson,<br />and he tied us tight as twine.<br /><br />But I wish, oh Lord, I fell overboard <br />on the old Fall River line.<br /><br />When the boat is landing, they're standing--<br />spooners by the dozen and more while the <br />Captain's calling and bawling<br />"Is there anybody wants to go ashore?"<br /><br />Everybody just answered then,<br />"Turn the boat 'round again!" <br /><br />The song is about the Fall River Line of steamships between New York and Newport, Rhode Island, which connected with trains from Newport to Boston. <br /><br />Von Tilzer had often traveled the line and was inspired by honeymooners.<br /><br />There is a comic twist to the idea of married bliss since chorus has this cynical line: 'But I wish...I fell overboard on the old Fall River Line.'"
