Modest Mazie

. . . Oh! Oh! Oh!, a song from 1910.
Featured in “The Deacon and the Lady”.
Words by Geo. Totten Smith.
Music by Alfred E. Aarons.


The sheet music:


Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:


Lyrics

  1. Mazie is a modest little country maid
    With a manner different and half afraid
    Dainty miss is she, pretty as can be
    With eyes soft brown she keeps cast down
    Ev’ry man that meets her fails in love they say
    Thinks her just a shy and timid little jay
    Who doesn’t really know a thing of love and so
    Though they would like to win her heart, they keep away

Refrain
Modest Mazie, innocent and shy
Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh!
If you kissed her, you’re afraid she’d cry
Oh! Oh! Oh!
But if you make up your mind and try
Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh!
She might tease you, but she’d squeeze you
Not let you go
Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh!

  1. Mazie met a chap who read her like a book
    Smiled when she bestowed on him a frightened look
    Then he said “My dear, me you need not fear
    I’m going to kiss you just like this”
    Mazie thought the world was swimming like a top
    When he kissed her she was sure that she would drop
    “Don’t” Mazie tried to say and “stop” but in some way
    It sounded very much as if she said “Don’t stop”