If You Don’t Want My Peaches

(You’d Better Stop Shaking My Tree)
A popular song from 1914
Words and music by Irving Berlin

The sheet music:

If-You-Dont-Want-My-Peaches – Sheet MusicDownload

Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:

If_You_Dont_Want_My_Peaches – MIDIDownload

Lyrics

  1. Mary Snow had a beau
    Who was bashful and shy
    She simply couldn’t make the boy propose
    No matter how she’d try
    Mary grew tired of waiting
    So she called her beau one side
    While he stood there biting his fingernails
    Mary cried

Chorus
If you don’t want my peaches
You’d better stop shaking my tree
Let me say that you’re mighty slow
You’re as cold as an Eskimo
There’s a thousand others waiting
Waiting to propose to me
So, if you don’t want my peaches
You’d better stop shaking my tree

  1. Mary’s Pa and her Ma
    Soon came into the room
    They took a look at Mary’s beau and cried
    “You ought to be a groom
    Of course, it’s none of our bus’ness
    But she’d make a lovely bride”
    He just answered “I’ll think it over” but
    Mary cried

Sung here by Laurence Rubenstein: