Blue Jeans

"Blue Jeans" (Fox Trot Song) is a sentimental popular song written by Harry D. Kerr and Lou Traveller in 1920. In the song, the singer is reminiscing about a long-ago young love that happened somewhere in the "hills of the old Cumberland." The chorus echoes the singer's longing:

Blue Jeans, the days are lonely,

Blue Jeans, I dream of you,

The Wildwood May days and childhood play days,

Those golden summer hours we knew;

Songbirds are softly calling,

Down where the grass is blue,

The trail up yonder, we used to wander,

There, pretty Blue Jeans, I'll wait for you.

"Blue Jeans" was recorded a number of times, including by the Premier Quartet (Victor 18740, November 1920) and the Peerless Quartet (Edison Blue Amberol 4288, August 1921).