Monroe Silver - Rebecca (1921)
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Monroe Silver
"Rebecca (Come Back From Mecca)"
This song follows in the wake of "Lena (From Palestina)." The word "Oriental" was used for songs about the Mid-East during World War I and in the early 1920s.
Victor 18748
1921
Bert Kalmar & Harry Ruby song
Across the way from where I live, there lives a girl and her
name is Rebecca. She's twenty-three. She saw an oriental
show and then decided she would go to Mecca across the sea.
And so she went one day to Turkey far away,
and she lived near the Sultan's den.
She stayed about two years, got full of new
ideas, and now she's back home again.
Since Rebecca came back from Mecca
All day long she keeps on smoking Turkish tobecca
With her veil upon her face
She goes dancing 'round the place
And yesterday her father found her
With a Turkish towel around her
Oh, oh, everyone's worried so
They think she's crazy in the dome
She's as bold as Theda Bara
Theda's bare but Becky's barer
Since Rebecca came back home
In Mecca where the nights are hot, Rebecca got and awful lot of learning
She certainly did
She goes to sleep when shadows creep And has to keep a bowl of incense burning
Some classy kid!
Her mother feels so sad, Her brother Moe is mad, And he keeps on complaining so
To satisfy her whim, she keeps on calling him "Mohammed" instead of Moe
Since Rebecca came back from Mecca
All day long she keeps on smoking Turkish tobecca
She lays on a Turkish rug
Ev'ryone says she's a bug
And since she's back home from the Harem
She has clothes but she don't wear 'em
Oh! Oh! Ev'ryone's worried so
She made the Sultan lose his throne
Once her little sister Sonia
Wore her clothes and got pneumonia
Since Rebecca came back home
"Rebecca (Come Back From Mecca)"
This song follows in the wake of "Lena (From Palestina)." The word "Oriental" was used for songs about the Mid-East during World War I and in the early 1920s.
Victor 18748
1921
Bert Kalmar & Harry Ruby song
Across the way from where I live, there lives a girl and her
name is Rebecca. She's twenty-three. She saw an oriental
show and then decided she would go to Mecca across the sea.
And so she went one day to Turkey far away,
and she lived near the Sultan's den.
She stayed about two years, got full of new
ideas, and now she's back home again.
Since Rebecca came back from Mecca
All day long she keeps on smoking Turkish tobecca
With her veil upon her face
She goes dancing 'round the place
And yesterday her father found her
With a Turkish towel around her
Oh, oh, everyone's worried so
They think she's crazy in the dome
She's as bold as Theda Bara
Theda's bare but Becky's barer
Since Rebecca came back home
In Mecca where the nights are hot, Rebecca got and awful lot of learning
She certainly did
She goes to sleep when shadows creep And has to keep a bowl of incense burning
Some classy kid!
Her mother feels so sad, Her brother Moe is mad, And he keeps on complaining so
To satisfy her whim, she keeps on calling him "Mohammed" instead of Moe
Since Rebecca came back from Mecca
All day long she keeps on smoking Turkish tobecca
She lays on a Turkish rug
Ev'ryone says she's a bug
And since she's back home from the Harem
She has clothes but she don't wear 'em
Oh! Oh! Ev'ryone's worried so
She made the Sultan lose his throne
Once her little sister Sonia
Wore her clothes and got pneumonia
Since Rebecca came back home