. . . ‘Cause Daisies Won’t Tell)
A popular song from 1913.
Words by Alfred Bryan and Sam M. Lewis.
Music by George W. Meyer.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- Handsome Harry, handsome Harry Thomas
He was sued, yes, sued for breach of promise
He took Mary walking through the dell
And said, “Now don’t you dare to tell
Mary went right home and told her mother
Ma told Pa and Pa then told her brother
Brother told the preacher and the preacher
Went and tolled a wedding bell
Chorus
Never take a walk with Mary
Never take a walk with Sue
Never take a walk with Maud or Carrie
That’s the kind of girl you’ll have to marry
If you take a girl out walking
Down a little shady dell
Always take a girl named Daisy
‘Cause daisies won’t tell
- Harry’s married life was pure and simple
Till he met a girlie with a dimple
She said, “Dear I’m not acquainted here
I just came down From Beaver Fall”
Harry wink and said, “Why silk and satin
To this girl would be like Greek and Latin”
Harry felt like fainting when he missed
His little dollar Ingersol