Little grey home in the West

If anybody had told him then that five minutes later he would be placing himself of his free will within range of a restaurant orchestra playing 'My Little Grey Home in the West' – and the orchestra at the Regent played little else – he would not have believed him.

Piccadilly Jim. Chapter 6

His sister – these things run in families – had sung 'My Little Grey Home in the West' – rather sombrely, for she had wanted to sing 'The Rosary', and, with the same obtuseness which characterised her brother, had come back and rendered plantation songs.

The Girl on the Boat. 6 Scene at a ship's concert

All through the voyage he remained moody and distrait; and at the ship's concert, at which he was forced to take the chair, he was heard to observe to the purser that if the alleged soprano who had just sung 'My Little Grey Home in the West' had the immortal gall to take a second encore he hoped that she would trip over a high note and dislocate her neck.

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Bradbury started.

'You didn't sing "My Little Grey Home in the West" at the ship's concert?' he demanded, eyeing her closely.

The Heart of a Goof. 2 High stakes