Heart-Breaking Baby Doll

(Blue-eyed, Blond-haired)
a 1919 popular song
words and music by Cliff Hess and Sidney D. Mitchell


The sheet music:


Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:


Lyrics

  1. Every Vampire I ever met
    Always had jet black hair
    Eyes the same, lips a-flame
    Seemed to say, “Beware”
    So, I picked an innocent blond
    She is beyond compare
    Still I’m in distress for I must confess
    That she’s not treating me fair

Chorus
She’s just a blue-eyed, blond haired
Heart-breaking baby doll, that’s all
She’s got my heart a-bouncing like a rubber ball
More times than I can tell
I’ve wished her “Fare thee well”
But next day surer than fate
I’m there at her gate a-ringing the bell
She’s got that “on the level”
“Cute little devil” way, and say
She could make a town like Philadelphia gay
She’s in my dreams every night until dawn
But when I wake in the morning she’s gone
She’s just a blue-eyed, blond-haired
Heart-breaking baby doll, that’s all

  1. I remember my Father said
    “When you see red, beware”
    So, when girls with red curls
    Passed me, I took care
    Now I wish Dad had put me wise
    To girls with eyes of blue
    But he didn’t tell so, I went and fell
    Because I thought Daddy knew

Sung here by Vancha March: