Good Enough

[WARNING: This song contains antiquated racial language. It is presented here for historical and educational purposes only.]

The last great sensation
a 1871 popular song
words and music by Rollin Howard

The sheet music:

Good-Enough – Sheet MusicDownload

Accompaniment:

Good-Enough – MIDIDownload

Lyrics

  1. “I’m good enough” this very day
    And happy as can be
    “The Sunflower” or the “Hollyhock”
    Cannot come up to me
    That’s so for now you suit my style
    You’re gay as you can be
    What good enough for Hannah, girls
    Is good enough for me

Chorus
It’s “good enough” for Hannah
It’s “good enough” for me
As each one suits the other
We’re happy as can be
It’s “good enough” for Hannah
It’s “good enough” for me
As each one suits the other
We’re happy as can be

  1. Now “shoo fly” boys, oh, “let me be”
    He’s the apple of my eye
    “Go way from me Old Bumble Bee”
    Without him I should die
    “You know how ’tis yourself,” dear girls
    In love I am you see
    Just see that hair how tight it curls
    She’s good enough for me
  2. The whole thing works so strangely, boys
    That very much I fear
    Unless I now own I love him
    He’ll “Slip off on his ear”
    Oh, never fear my darling one
    For wedded we will be
    In “The little church ’round the corner”
    That’s good enough for me

Sung here by Fred Feild: