Banish sadness and strife. #PlagueSongs, no. 22
Bringing you the words of Buddy DeSylva and the music of Jerome Kern to – as the song says – “banish sadness and strife.” Written in 1919, this is the earliest in my Plague Songs series and the last regular weekly Plague Song. Appropriately, perhaps, this song dates to the pandemic of a century ago. Written for