Lyrics: Joe Cooper/Bert Kalmar
Music: Joe Cooper/Bert Kalmar
Half past four
Dan Mc Graw
came sneak-ing to his wif-ey's door.
She'd been wait-ing up all night
Wait-ing for him to go to bed
Dan-ny smiled
like a child
but his wif-ey grew very wild
Where have you been all night long?
she cried
And this is what Dan-ny re-plied:
I've been float-ing down the old green riv-er on the good ship Rock and Rye
But I floated to far
I got stuck on a bar
I was out there a-lone
wish-ing that I was home
The ship got wrecked with the captain and crew
And there was on-ly one thing left to do
So I had to drink the whole green riv-er dry
to get back home to you