"Blue Jeans" 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.

"Blue Jeans" was recorded a number of times, including by the Premier Quartet (Victor

Victor Talking Machine Company

The Victor Talking Machine Company was an American corporation, the leading American producer of phonographs and phonograph records and one of the leading phonograph companies in the world at the time. It was headquartered in Camden, New Jersey....

 18740, November 1920) and the Peerless Quartet

Peerless Quartet

The Peerless Quartet, , was a vocal group from the acoustic era . It was organised in 1904 as the Columbia Quartet. It remained active until 1928 and had many changes of personnel during that time, the one constant being Henry Burr...

 (Edison Blue Amberol

Blue Amberol Records

Blue Amberol Records was the trademarked name for cylinder recordings manufactured by the Edison company in the U.S. from 1912 to 1929. They were issued as a replacement to the 4 minute black wax Amberol cylinder introduced in 1908 which in turn replaced the 2 minute wax cylinders that Edison had...

4288, August 1921).

External links

• "A Blast From The Past; October 1997, First Issue Updated. The Parlor Songs Collection.
• "Blue Jeans" (mp3) by the Premier Quartet; hosted by Internet Archive.
• "Blue Jeans" (sheet music), Archive of Popular American Music; hosted by UCLA Library Digital Collections.