When I Tip-Tip-Toe Up (A Tuck-Tuck-Tucky Lane)

Lyric: Mort Dixon & Billy Rose
Music: Harry Warren
Year: 1928
Original publisher: De Sylva, Brown & Henderson, Inc.

Verse 1:

I've been all around the universe,
To the east and to the west;
Never wrote back home,
Not a note back home,
To the ones that I love best.
I've been all around the universe,
Not a sight I haven't seen,
But there ain't no thrills
Like the Tucky Hills,
And in other words, I mean;

Chorus:

I'm gonna tip-tip-toe to the tip-tip-top of heaven,
When I tip-tip-toe up a Tuck-Tuck-Tucky lane.
I'm gonna look inside and see a silver lining,
Through a shining window pane.
I'm gonna knock-knock-knock on the pearly gates of heaven,
When I knock-knock-knock at the old front door again:
How I'll laugh and cry caressing my old mother,
When I tip-tip-toe up a Tuck-Tuck-Tucky lane.

Verse 2:

Wanna hear a little whippoorwill
At the finish of the day,
With the windows up,
On an eiderdown,
Let me sleep my cares away.
Wanna wake up at the crack of dawn,
When the sun is shining red,
Wanna stretch my feet
On a snow-white sheet,
And have breakfast right in bed;

[Chorus]