A popular song from 1925
Words and music by Billy Rose, Mort Dixon and Ray Henderson
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- Sweethearts make love in the park
They hide away in the dark
I keep wondering why
They’re so terribly shy
They look so foolish to me
I’d act differently
Chorus
If I had a girl like you
I wouldn’t care if the whole world knew
I’d go all over telling Tom and Dick and Harry
“Meet the little girl I’m gonna marry”
I’d go with a big brass band
And buy a diamond for your left hand
I’d let a hundred million people know
By telegraph and radio
If I had a girl like you
- I’d be so happy and glad
I’d run a newspaper “ad”
With a picture of us
Making love on a bus
Your other beaus would exclaim
“Oh, my! what a shame”
Chorus
If I had a girl like you
I’d be so happy I’d go cuckoo
I’d tell each dandelion and daffodil and daisy
“Come along with me, I’m going crazy”
I’d fly in a big balloon
And write your name all around the moon
Up in a bamboo tree I’d flit and flut
From cocoanut to cocoanut
If I had a girl like you
Sung here by Laurence Rubenstein: