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First Published<\/td>1927<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Writer\/composer<\/td>Harry Woods<\/td>Roud<\/strong><\/td>RN27087<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Music Hall Performers<\/strong><\/td>Florrie Forde<\/td><\/tr>
Folk performances<\/strong><\/td>Source Singers <\/strong>
McCormack, Mary; Canada: Newfoundland; 1978
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See that sun in the morning,\nPeeking over the hill?\nI'll bet you're sure it always has \nAnd sure it always will.\nThat's how I feel about someone,\nHow somebody feels about me.\nWe're sure we love each other\nThat's the way we'll always be.\n\nOh, we ain't got a barrel of money,\nMaybe we're ragged and funny\nBut we'll travel along\nSinging a song\nSide by side.<\/em>\nDon't know what's comin' tomorrow\nMaybe it's trouble and sorrow\nBut we'll travel the road\nSharing our load\nSide by side.\n<\/em>\nThrough all kinds of weather\nWhat if the sky should fall?\nJust as long as we're together,\nIt doesn't matter at all.\nWhen they've all had their quarrels and parted\nWe'll be the same as we started\nJust a-traveling along\nSinging a song\nSide by side.<\/em>\n\nWe're all hunting for something\nSomething we don't know what\n'Cause none of us are satisfied\nWith things we know we've got.\nWe all forget about moonlight,\nAs soon as we've given our vow\nBut we'd all be so happy if we'd start and sing right now:\n\n<\/pre>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
The links between this song and the halls may seem tenuous, but in the UK some element of its popularity will have been due to it being sung by performers and audience in the halls. It gave rise to at least two popular parodies sung widely in the folk world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A standard from the Great American Song book, from the pen of Tin Pan Alley songwriter Harry Woods who also wrote When the red red robin (goes bob, bob, bobbing)<\/em> and Try a Little tenderness<\/em>. On the British Music Hall stage it was most associated with the singing of Florrie Forde<\/a>\u00a0(1876-1940).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It has been found once in the singing of  a traditional singer – collected by Yvonne Courtney from the singing of Mary McCormack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Not to be confused with an earlier Side-by-side<\/em> from 1891, written\/composed by Harry Adams \/ JM Harrison, with first line: On English soil fair blooms the rose<\/em>, sung in the Halls by Rose Sullivan<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
The song been parodied many many times, in particular there are two which might be considered traditional, see Side by side (dismantled bride version)<\/a> and Side by side (Danny Brazil version)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
An American Standard, by Bing Crosby with the Paul Whiteman Orchestra:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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