George W. Meyer

George William Meyer (January 1, 1884 – August 28, 1959) was an American Tin Pan Alley songwriter. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1884. He graduated from Roxbury High School, and began working in accountancy for Boston department stores, before moving to New York City in his mid-20s.

He wrote the music for the songs "For Me and My Gal", "In the Land of Beginning Again", "There Are Such Things", and many others. Meyer had a publishing company, Geo. W. Meyer Co., located at the Exchange Building, 143 West 45th Street, New York City, where he published his songs and the songs of other songwriters. He collaborated with eminent lyricists of his era, including Joe Young, Grant Clarke, Roy Turk, Arthur Johnston, Al Bryan, Edgar Leslie, E. Ray Goetz, Pete Wendling, Abel Baer and Stanley Adams.

He died in New York City in 1959, aged 75. "Cover Me Up with the Sunshine of Virginia" "Everything Is Peaches Down in Georgia" in 1918 with Milton Ager (lyrics by Grant Clarke) "Friends" in 1919 (lyrics by Howard Johnson & Joseph H. Santly) "There's a Dixie Girl Who's Longing for a Yankee Doodle Boy" (lyrics by Robert F. Roden) "There's a Little Lane Without a Turning on the Way to Home, Sweet Home" in 1915 (lyrics by Sam M. Lewis) "Tuck Me to Sleep in My Old 'Tucky Home" "When I First Met You" "Where Did Robinson Crusoe Go with Friday on Saturday Night?" (used in the musical Robinson Crusoe, Jr.) in 1916 "You'll Find Old Dixieland in France" in 1918 (lyrics by Grant Clarke)