A 1922 popular song.
Words and music by Terry Sullivan and John P. Long.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- I’ve been studying physiognomy
Studying the different faces
Long and short, fat and thin
Faces sad and faces with a grin
I’ve got a cousin with a fine face
I allude to Cousin Joe
It loos so neat, so good and sweet
It’s just the finest face I know
Chorus
His is a fine phiz, his is
What a fine phiz his phiz is
His is a face that’s bound to get a place
Bound to get a place in the Human Race
His phiz, gee whiz!
Is the image of his Auntie Liz
And as he drinks fizz when he does a bit of biz
What a fine fizzy phiz his is
- On the physical beauty of this phiz
Many physiognomists argue
Some folks smile, some folks sigh
Some shout ‘Beaver!’ when he’s passing by
Never-the-less, it is a fine phiz
Sort of grows on one, you see
Well let it grow on Cousin Joe
I’m glad it doesn’t grow on me
Sung here by Fred Feild: