a 1922 popular song
words by Lew Brown
music by Ray Henderson
The sheet music:
Accompaniment:
Lyrics
- Right across the way from me
In apartment forty-three
Every night I always see
Such a funny pair
He’s a bashful Romeo
And she loves to tease him so
He sighs, oh! how he cries
Each time she rolls her eyes
Chorus
Georgette, Georgette, I’m wild as can be
I’m all upset, ’cause you’re teasing me
My ma, my pa, my whole family
They scold me, they told me,
You’ve got a kick like T.N.T.
I eat, I sleep, but not like I should
Oh! me, oh! my, why can’t you be good?
Once I was gentle and meek
Now I’m as wild as the Sheik
I’ll get you yet, Georgette
- Every night it’s just the same
And I think that it’s a shame
‘Cause she plays the same old game
But he doesn’t care
When he starts to fuss and pout
She just tries to put him out
He’s sore, gets to the door
And then he sings once more
Sung here by Fred Feild: