Lily of Laguna

"Lily of Laguna" is a British coon song written in eye dialect. It was written in 1896 by English composer Leslie Stuart. It was a music hall favourite, performed notably by blackface performers such as Eugene Stratton and G. H. Elliott. In the early 1940s Ted Fio Rito wrote the tune of a new verse and Paul Francis Webster wrote fresh lyrics^[1] and it was stripped of its overtly racist lyrics to become a pure love song which continued to be popular into the 1950s.^{[2] [3]}