Forty-five Minutes from Broadway

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Forty-five Minutes from Broadway is the name of a musical play written and produced by George M. Cohan in 1905.

It is remembered for several songs, such as its title song, Forty-five Minutes from Broadway and for tunes about its leading lady character, Mary Is a Grand Old Name and So Long Mary, which were presented in recreations of the original stage play within the 1942 film Yankee Doodle Dandy.

[edit] Lyrics excerpts

[edit] Forty-five Minutes from Broadway

Only forty-five minutes from Broadway

Think of the changes it brings

For the short time it takes

What a diff'rence it makes

In the ways of the people and things

Oh, what a fine bunch of reubens

Oh, what a jay atmosphere

They have whiskers like hay

And imagine Broadway

Only forty-five minutes from here

[edit] Mary Is a Grand Old Name

For it is Mary; Mary

Plain as any name can be

But in propriety, society

Will say, "Marie"

But it was Mary; Mary

Long before the fashions came

And there is something there

That sounds so square

It's a grand old name