By The Beautiful Sea 

Harry Carroll (1892–1962); Harold R. Atteridge (1886–1938) 

I was going to say that everybody knows this tune. It’s been used in countless movies (Some Like It Hot, among them) and TV shows, not to mention its having been played tens of thousands of times on merry-go-rounds nationwide. Still, I’ll bet a lot of young people have never heard it. Until working it out on a juke—a steel body ukelele tuned like a banjo—I never realized how fun it was to play and how truly fine the words are. One damn jolly song.

I’d like to be beside your side, beside the sea
Beside the seaside
By the beautiful sea.