From the 1914 musical “Watch Your Step”
words and music by Irving Berlin
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- When I was a Baby
I used to sit on my Daddy’s knee
When I was a school girl
The fellows always appealed to me
My Dad said, “Don’t scold her
She’ll change when she’s older”
But strange to say to this very day
I’ve never changed
Chorus
I love to have the boys around me
Around me all the time
I’m never happy till I’m with the men
Then I’m unhappy till we meet again
I simply couldn’t live without them
There’s something makes me
Wild about them all kinds
The very large and very small kinds
I love to have them chasing me
Embracing me all of the time
- I’m hoping for Heaven
But let me tell you in any case
If boys aren’t up there
I want to go to the other place
I never will marry
A Tom, Dick or Harry
Just one, you see wouldn’t do for me
I love them all