A popular song from 1907
Words by Arthur J. Lamb
Music by Alfred Solman
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- One fine day the sun was shining hot
Jane was standing on the corner lot
Saw the iceman slowly going by
As he looked he winked his eye
After that in any kind of weather
He and Jane would always be together
Till one night he called her his divinity
Also his affinity
Refrain
The iceman is a nice man
But just one thing is sure
There’s something in his bus’ness
That affects his temperature, Oh
Love is such a funny thing
For she found out, once or twice
All she can get from the iceman
Is ice, ice, ice
- So one day when merry birds did sing
They were married, bells went ding-a-ling
For his rent he didn’t have the price
So he gave the landlord ice
Folks who love may call each other “honey”
But you can’t get on without the money
Then tho’ married life at first was very sweet
Still the Iceman got cold feet - Well, in time she had to go to court
He left her, she sued for non-support
Court said, “Mister Iceman, listen then
Every week you’ll hand her ten”
Time’s gone by and tho’ she hates to say it
Alimony he don’t ever pay it
So at last she acted on a friend’s advice
And she takes it out in ice
Sung here by Vancha March: