Blue Jeans (1920s song)

"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.

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