Jimmy Kennedy

Jimmy Kennedy OBE (20 July 1902 – 6 April 1984) was an Irish songwriter.

Song lyrics

• Let's all sing the barmaid's song,
  Time gentlemen, please.
  Every night we hear this refrain,
  Every night at 11 o'clock
  We hear it once again!
  • Song The Barmaid's Song

• Time to fly away,
  Gentlemen, please.
  Fly away into the abyss,
  Every night at 9 o'clock
  We fly into the night once again!
  • Song Flying in the Night

• She was sweet as a rose at the dawning,
  But somehow fate hadn't meant her for me;
  Though I sailed with the tide in the morning,
  Still my heart's on the Isle of Capri.
  • Song The Isle of Capri

• If you go down in the woods today
  You're sure of a big surprise.
  If you go down in the woods today
  You'd better go in disguise.
  For ev'ry bear that ever there was
  Will gather there for certain, because
  Today's the day the teddy bears have their picnic.
  • Song The Teddy Bears' Picnic

• My prayer is to linger with you
  At the end of the day in a dream that's divine;
  My prayer is a rapture in blue
  With the world far away and your lips close to mine.
  • Song My Prayer

• Red sails in the sunset,
  Way out on the sea,
  Oh carry my loved one
  Home safely to me.
  • Song Red Sails in the Sunset

• This sad reality, To know it couldn't be,
  That's Portugal and love in April!
  The music and the wine convinced me you were mine,
  But it was just the spring fooling me.
  • Song April in Portugal

• South of the border, down Mexico way.
  That's where I fell in love where stars above, came out to play.
  And now as I wonder, my thoughts ever stray
  South of the border, down Mexico way.
  • Song South of the Border (1939)

• We're going to hang out the washing on the Siegfried Line.
  Have you any dirty washing, mother dear?
  We're gonna hang out the washing on the Siegfried Line.
  'Cause the washing day is here.
  • Song We're Going to Hang out the Washing on the Siegfried Line

• How could I help if tears were starting?
  Goodbye to tender nights beside the silv'ry sea.
  I longed to hold you near and kiss you just once more,
  But you were on the ship and I was on the shore.
  • Song Harbour Lights

• Even old New York was once New Amsterdam.
  Why they changed it I can't say;
  People just liked it better that way.
  Istanbul was Constantinople
  Now it's Istanbul, not Constantinople
  Been a long time gone, Constantinople
  Why did Constantinople get the works?
  That's nobody's business but the Turks!
  • Song Istanbul Not Constantinople

Misattributed

• You put your right arm in,
  Your right arm out
  In, out, in, out and shake it all about.
  You do the hokey cokey and you turn around,
  And that's what it's all about.
  • Song The Hokey Cokey (actually by Al Tabor).