Old Cape Cod

Album: 16 Most Requested Songs (1957)
Charted: 3
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  • If you're fond of sand dunes and salty air
    Quaint little villages here and there
    (You're sure)You're sure to fall in love with old Cape Cod
    (Cape Cod, that old Cape Cod)

    If you like the taste of a lobster stew
    Served by a window with an ocean view
    (You're sure)You're sure to fall in love with old Cape Cod

    Winding roads that seem to beckon you
    Miles of green beneath a sky of blue
    Church bells chimin' on a Sunday morn
    Remind you of the town where you were born

    If you spend an evening you'll want to stay
    Watching the moonlight on Cape Cod Bay
    You're sure to fall in love with old Cape Cod

    (aah, aah)

    If you spend an evening you'll want to stay (on Cape Cod Bay)
    Watching the moonlight on Cape Cod Bay
    You're sure to fall in love with old Cape Cod
    You're sure to fall in love
    You're sure to fall in love with old Cape Cod Writer/s: Alan Jeffreys, Claire Rothrock, Milton Yakus
    Publisher: CONCORD MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 6

  • Billy from IllinoisLOVE PATTI PAGE, I lost my wife 2022, you have more slow love songs from Patti Page, Elvis Presley, please, and please send remix of Old Cape Cod. I bought the 45RPM record in 1957 at Comay's,, and the Record Mart from owner, Jordan Smith and Fred W.
  • Revanr from PhillyDoes anyone know what'60s movie that took place in Africa or South America this song was in?
  • Jl from So CalSampled in Groove Armada's 'At The River' please someone remix this as a whole song not just a sample.
  • Jennifur Sun from RamonaLove this song. First time I ever heard it was at my Home Town's High School talent show. My late oldest brother really loved it and now it always reminds me of him.
  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn February 26th 2010, a street in Barnstable, Massachusetts on Cape Cod was re-named Patti Page Way...
    Fifty-three years earlier on May 9th, 1957 Ms. Page' version of "Old Cape Cod" entered on Billboard's Top 100 chart at position #68; a little under eighteen weeks later on June 13th it would peak at #7* and it stayed on the chart for 23 weeks...
    Between 1948 and 1975 she had sixty-nine Top 100 records; twenty-three made the Top 10 with four reaching #1, "All My Love (Bolero)" in 1950, "Tennessee Waltz" in 1950, "I Went to Your Wedding" in 1952, and "(How Much Is That) Doggie In the Window" in 1953...
    Ms. Page, born Clara Ann Fowler, passed away on January 1st, 2013 at the age of 85...
    * On July 14th, 1957 "Old Cape Cod" reached #3 {for 1 week} on Billboard's Most Played by Jockeys chart.
  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn June 1st 1957, Patti Page appeared on the NBC-TV music variety special, 'Five Stars* for Springtime'...
    As the time she had two records on Billboard's Top 100 chart; "Old Cape Cod" was at #19, while the record's flip-side, "Wondering", was at #51...
    "Old Cape Cod" would peak at #7 on the Top 100; while "Wondering" would reach #35...
    * The four other 'Stars' that appeared on the special were Gordon McRae, Ricky Nelson, Nat 'King' Cole, and Andy Williams.
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