HORNELL

Music by Wm L. Hickey

Words by Walter G. Doty

Published by the Peerless Theater, Hornell

Ist Verse:

By a slow and winding river flowing on in calm content

Stands a city that to me is ever dear

And especially when it's time to pay the gas bill and the rent

Or the taxes that climb higher year by year.

There's a new and handsome courthouse and the factories galore

Ship their products o'er the ocean far away

There are several miles of pavement and we keep on laying more

And we'll have a new post office sure some day.

O you ought to see the people on a pleasant summer’s night

When the young men line the side walk in a flock

And the girls go strolling by with a twinkle in their eye

Walking, walking till they're dizzy 'round the block

Chorus:

Hornell, Hornell, the town where the best people dwell

New York's a back number sunk deep in its slumber when it tries to compete with Hornell

Hornell, Hornell, the town where the girls are all swell

Where e'er I roam I still dream of home of the fair maple city Hornell

2nd verse:

All the avenues are shaded and the street cars run all day

Always opposite to the way you want to go

We've a race track that the city owns the famous company "K"

And there are no better schools than ours you know

We have fifteen thousand people and we're growing right along

We've the finest fire department anywhere

Wait until we get those trolley lines they've promised us so long

That new school house and grandstand for the fair.

There is always something doing here for business or for fun.

It's the liveliest little city in the bunch

And in summer when it's fine there is Glenwood down the line

Where you go and eat mosquitoes with your lunch