SONG: Joe Costanzo brought by the newsroom an old Bradford relic he found cleaning out an attic recently.

Costanzo turned up a well-preserved packet of sheet music for the song “Back to Bradford.”

With lyrics by Joseph A. Riley and music by Mary J. Bradley, it had been printed for the Old Home Week and Centennial held Aug. 9 to 15, 1925. It was published by the Old Home Week Committee and sold for 30 cents a copy.

My heart has been tuned in,

With a station far away

A station in old Bradford

And they’re calling night and day

Calling from my old hometown

In the Allegheny hills

Back in dear old Pennsylvania

And my thoughts with joy it fills

So I’m going back to Bradford

To the County of McKean

To the State of Pennsylvania

To the towns of which I dream

Yes, I’m going back to Tarport,

Derrick City, Duke and Rew

Sure I’m going back next August

So are you, and you and you

The radio is broadcasting

That we’re all expected there

‘Neath the arches over Main Street

And the big light on the square

I can’t resist the calling

And I’m going back to see

That loved place and loving faces

Which mean so much to me

So I’m going back to Bradford

To the County of McKean

To the State of Pennsylvania

To the towns of which I dream

Yes, I’m going back to Tarport,

Derrick City, Duke and Rew

Sure I’m going back next August

So are you, and you and you