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“Cape Cod” originated with a poem written by Claire Rothrock, whose favourite holiday destination was Cape Cod in Barnstable County, Massachusetts.
If you're fond of sand dunes and salty air
Quaint little villages here and there
You're sure to fall in love with Old Cape Cod
If you like the taste of a lobster stew
Served by a window with an ocean view
You're sure to fall in love with Old Cape Cod
Winding roads that seem to beckon you
Miles of green beneath the skies of blue
Church bell chiming on a Sunday morn
Remind you of the town where you were born
If you spend an evening you'd want to stay
Watching the moonlight on Cape Cod Bay
You're sure to fall in love with Old Cape Cod
Old Cape Cod was written by Irwin Pincus & Milton Yakus & Claire Rothrock.
Old Cape Cod was produced by Vic Schoen.
Patti Page released Old Cape Cod on Tue Apr 23 1957.
Page had never visited Cape Cod herself before the release of the song. In a 2010 interview, she described her first visit:
I could not believe it when I finally did go, because I realized that [the song] had captured something about a place that I had had within me for so many years, but never kne...