The Jesters - Show Me The Way To Go Home (1941)

Do you remember the way the song was peformed just before a shark attack in the film "Jaws"? Quint, Brody, and Hooper sing it while drinking. It seems the shark does not appreciate the song since the shark makes an attack as soon as the men sing this song.

The Jesters

"Show Me The Way To Go Home"

Decca 3706

1941

Irving King song = written in 1925

"Irving King" is really the English songwriting team James Campbell and Reginald Connelly

The first recording of the song was by Frank Crumit in 1926.

Show me the way to go home.
I'm tired and I want to go to bed.
I had a little drink about an hour ago,
And it went right to my head.

Wherever I may roam,
On land or sea or foam,
You will always hear me singing this song:
Show me the way to go home.

When I'm happy, when I'm happy, singing all the while,
I don't need nobody then to show me how to smile.

When I've been out on a spree, toddling down
the street, with this little melody everyone I greet:

Show me the way to go home. I'm tired and I want to go to bed.
I had a little drink about an hour ago, and it went right to my head.

Wherever I may roam, on land or sea or foam, you can always
hear me singing this song. Show me the way to go home.