A popular song from 1913.
Words and music by Herbert W. Willett.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- Steamboat bells are ringing
Hear the whistle blow
Down on the Ohio
Time to be a leaving
Time for me to go
Sailing down the Ohio
My sweetheart Flo is waiting for me
On the river shore
And she’s the only girl that I adore
Waiting there to meet me
And to greet me, too, I know, I know
She’ll hear the whistle blow
When I get near Ohio Flow
Chorus
Ohio Flo
You’re the sweetest girl I know
I love you so
Won’t you let me be your beau
My heart is bleeding
Oh, hear my pleading
Come on and love me
My Ohio Flo
- Candle lights are gleaming
Gleaming soft and low
Down on the Ohio
I can see the cottage
Home of darling Flo
Down upon the Ohio
I wonder if she’ll kiss me when I
Get upon the shore
And love me like she never loved before
Wish the boat would hurry
Never was so slow, Oh, ho, Oh, ho
She’ll hear the whistle blow
When I get near Ohio Flo
Sung here by Laurence Rubenstein: