California Here I Come - Lyrics - Fats Waller

Thomas Wright "Fats" Waller was an influential American jazz pianist, organist, composer, singer, and comedic entertainer, whose innovations to the Harlem stride style laid the groundwork for modern jazz piano, and whose best-known compositions, "Ain't Misbehavin'" and "Honeysuckle Rose", were inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame posthumously, in 1984 and 1999.

When the wintry winds are blowing and the snow is starting in to fall then my eyes turn west-ward, knowing that's the place I love the best of all California , I've been blue, since I've been away from you I can't wait 'til I get going Even now I'm starting in to call, Oh... California, here I come right back where I started from Where Bowers of flowers bloom in the sun Each morning at dawning, birdies sing an' everything A sunkist miss said, "Don't be late" that's why I can hardly wait Open up that Golden Gate California here I come Any one who likes to wander ought to keep this saying in his mind "Absence makes the heart grow fonder" of the good old place you leave behind When you've hit the train awhile, seems you rarely see a smile that's why I must fly out yonder, where a frown is mighty hard to find! Oh.... California, here I come right back where I started from Where Bowers of flowers bloom in the sun Each morning at dawning, birdies sing an' everything A sunkist miss said, "Don't be late" that's why I can hardly wait Open up that Golden Gate. California here I come.