a very cute 1922 popular song
words by William Tracey
music by Dan Dougherty
The sheet music:
Accompaniment from player piano roll QRS-1987
played by Victor Arden & Max Kortlander:
Lyrics
- Mamie McShane was a dumb, dizzy dame
That lived over on First Avenue
She couldn’t be beaten for dancin’ and eatin’
Those two things were all that she knew
She met Jimmie Peter, a nifty cake-eater
One night at the Gas Fitters’ Ball
That guy danced her lame
Now the girls all kid Mame
But here’s how she answers them all:
Chorus
“Since I met dat kid I’m clean off of me lid, gee
I certainly must be in love
I can’t do me woik and I can’t sleep at night
I’m dreamin’ of moiders and boiglars and fights
Dat guy’s got me vamped
When he looks in me lamps
I feel like I’m in heaven above
We go to a dance and get home about two
But I don’t get upstairs till the boids start to coo
When I stood in cold hallways and floit wit the flu
Gee, I certainly must be in love”
- “Jimmie’s not smart but dat guy’s got a heart
Dat’s as big as a homemade mince pie
And gee ain’t he jealous of dose other fellers
Dat speak to me when I pass by
But he needn’t fear ’em, I wouldn’t go near ’em
If dey gave me diamonds and poils
I’m strong for me Jim and I’ll stick right to him
As long as he don’t floit with goils”
Chorus
“Me whole life is spoiled
I’m not long for dis world
Gee, I certainly must be in love
I carried his picture right next to me heart
I kissed it so much dat it all fell apart
Me boss’ll bounce me, I can’t add tree and tree
There’s just one poisun I’m thinkin’ of
I jumped in the bathtub and scrubb’d meself white
And now I am convinced that me mind isn’t right
‘Cause when I take a bath before Saturday night
Gee, I certainly must be in love”
Sung here by Fred Feild: