Cruisin’ Down Holliday Street

The Dan Meyer Choir has combined a bit of Baltimore history together with our holiday celebration and the result was the perky, 4-part number "Cruisin' Down Holliday Street"

Lyrics:

John Robert Holliday,
Baltimore’s high sheriff
In 1770.
John Robert Holliday,
The high sheriff
Owned himself some property.
When a street opened
Near his place
In 1783,
For John Robert,
The high sheriff
They named it Holliday Street.

From the JFX
To the City Hall:
The hap, hap, happiest
Street of all
Is the street
That we call
Holliday,
Cruisin’ down Holliday Street.

Holliday Street Theatre
Was where "The Star-Spangled
Banner" was first sung
To great renoun.
In 1873
The Holliday Street Theatre
Burned down
To the ground.
The floods of 1858
Brought water eight feet deep
Over the banks
Of the Jones Falls River
Into Holliday Street.

From the JFX
To the City Hall
The hap, hap, happiest
Street of all
Is the street
That we call
Holliday, Holliday.
Happy, happy Holliday,
Holliday Street!
Let’s go cruisin’ down Holliday Street.

© 2011, Daniel C. Meyer