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Roy Turk and J.R. Robinson wrote this song in 1922, and Columbia brought Nora Bayes in to record it on September 18th of that year. This is one of many songs about "going back to my Southern home" that were very
popular in Vaudeville. Instrumental versions of this song were also quite popular (hear an example here), but nobody could deliver a lyric quite like Nora Bayes. She treats this song
like it was gold, and it is her performance that helps this song transcend the age in which it was written. Whoever had this record before played it a lot, and the grooves show some stress here and there, but most of the
offending noises have been removed for your listening pleasure. (An extensive write-up about Nora Bayes can be found at John Culme's
Footlight Notes.)
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