A popular song from 1924
Words and music by Gus Kahn and Ted Fiorito
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by Denese Coulbeck:
Lyrics
- Charley is an ordinary fellow
To most everyone but Flo, his Flo
She’s convinced that Charley
Is a very extraordinary beau, some beau
And every evening in the dim light
She has a way of putting him right
Chorus
Charley, my boy, oh Charley, my boy
You thrill me, you chill me with shivers of joy
You’ve got that kinda sorta bit of a way
That makes me, takes me, tell me what shall I say
And when we dance I read in your glance
Whole pages and ages of love and romance
They tell me Romeo was some lover too
But boy he should have taken lessons from you
You seem to start where others get through
Oh Charley, my boy
- Charley’s Dad and Mother
And his sister and his brother
Call him pest, just pest
While his girl’s relations say
If he would stay away
We’d have some rest, some rest
Her father’s cleaning up his rifle
But she says, dearie, that’s a trifle
Chorus
Charley, my boy, oh Charley, my boy
You thrill me, you chill me with shivers of joy
You’ve got that kinda sorta bit of a way
That makes me, takes me, tell me what shall I say
And when we dance I read in your glance
Sweet notions and motions of love and romance
My mother told me that I shouldn’t be kissed
But then your coaxin’ ways are hard to resist
My lips refuse, but your eyes insist
Oh Charley, my boy
Sung here by Laurence Rubenstein: