a 1926 song from “The Merry World”
words and music by Leo Robin and Albert Von Tilzer
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- Hey there taxi, do your stuff
I can’t get there fast enough
Take me to that train from way out West
I’m just jumping in my shoes
‘Cause there ain’t no time to lose
Get a date one-fifty-eight
With the one that I love best
Chorus
My cutey’s due at two-to-two
She’s coming thru on a big choo-choo
She’s been away for months
But I haven’t cheated once
Stay’d home nights, didn’t dance
Wasn’t taking any chance
Didn’t flirt and tho’ it hurt
I just couldn’t do my cutey dirt
My days were blue, my nights were black
But I just knew that she’d come back
For I love her and she loves me and say
Don’t think there ain’t no Santa Claus
I know darn well there is because
My cutey’s due at two-to-two today
- No one knows how glad I am
Since I got that telegram
Sweeter than a message from above
Seems just like a century
Since she’s been away from me
But you bet I’m gonna get
What I’ve kept on dreaming of
Chorus
My cutey’s due at two-to-two
She’s coming thru on a big choo-choo
She’s been away for months
But I haven’t cheated once
Stay’d home nights, didn’t dance
Wasn’t taking any chance
Didn’t flirt and tho’ it hurt
I just couldn’t do my cutey dirt
My days were blue, my nights were black
But I just knew that she’d come back
For I love her and she loves me and say
And when I feel her lips on mine
I won’t let go ’til half past nine
My cutey’s due at two-to-two today
Sung here by Laurence Rubenstein.