A popular song from 1953
Words and music by Harry Thomas
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
Matilda, Matilda, Matilda
She take me money and run Venezuelah
Everybody!
Matilda, Matilda, Matilda
She take me money and run Venezuelah
- Five hundred dollars, friends, I lost
What made me sell me cat and horse
Heya Matilda
She take me money and run Venezuelah
Everybody! - Well, de money was just inside me bed
Stuck up in de pillow beneath me head
Don’t you know
Matilda, she take me money and run Venezuelah
Everybody! - Well, me friends, nevah to love again
All me money gone in vain
Hey-a
Matilda, she take me money and run Venezuelah
Everybody!
Sung here by Laurence Rubenstein: