(Just the Way He Lied To Me)
A WWI song from 1919
Words by Joe Young and Sam M. Lewis
Music by Bert Grant
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- Barney Carney promised
He’d be true to Molly O
The day he went away to war
About a year ago
In every note that Barney wrote
He called her ‘Ma Cherie’
She read the name and said with shame
“This isn’t meant for me”
All the neighbors noticed
There were teardrops in her eye
And when they asked her how was Barney
She’d begin to cry
Chorus
My Barney lies over the ocean
My Barney lies over the sea
Sure he said he went to wear to help the women
And I think he’s helped himself to two or three
Now he’s got a little girl in Belgium
And one in Paree
And I know the little things he tells ‘em
When they’re on his knee
Sure my Barney lies over the ocean
Just the way he lied to me”
- Barney wrote a letter home
The day the war was through
He started off with ‘Molly dear
I’m coming home to you
He didn’t say what week or day
Nor did he say what year
And Molly O, said, “Wurra-woe
It’s all a joke I fear”
People said he’d have to wait
Until the ships come back
And Molly said, “Why wait for them
Why don’t he take a hack?”