By the Beautiful Sea -- played by Tom Brier with Washboard Kitty

Tom on piano with Kitty Wilson plays this 1914 hit song by Harry Carroll with words by Harold R. Atteridge
You'll forgive a couple gaffes; the rest of the performance surely makes up for it!
Recorded at the 2010 Sutter Creek Ragtime Festival.
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Lyrics:
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[Verse 1]
Joe and Jane were always together,
Said Joe to Jane "I love Summer weather,
So let's go to that beautiful sea,
Follow along; say you're with me!"
Anything that Joe would suggest to her,
Jane would always think it was best for her.
So he'd get his Ford, holler "all aboard.
Gee! I want to be..."
[Chorus]
By the sea, by the sea, by the beautiful sea,
You and I, you and I, oh! How happy we'll be,
When each wave comes a rolling in,
We will duck or swim, and we'll float and fool around the water.
Over and under, and then up for air,
Pa is rich; Ma is rich, so now what do we care?
I love to be beside your side, beside the sea,
Beside the seaside, by the beautiful sea.
[Verse 2]
Joe was quite a sport on a Sunday,
Though he would eat at Childs on a Monday,
And Jane would lose her millionaire air,
And go to work Marcelling hair,
Every Sunday he'd leave his wife at home,
Say "It's business, honey; I've got to roam,"
Then he'd miss his train, get his Ford and Jane,
And say "Come with me."
(repeat chorus)
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You can hear a 1914 recording of this song being sung here:
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Of course, the song was probably truly immortalized decades later by Spike Jones.