A popular song from 1906,
Words by Harry Williams.
Music by Egbert Van Alstyne.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- When I was but a little boy
I went to school one day
And when I saw my teacher dear
I loved her right away
As years rolled on I loved her more
Yes better than my life
And as no one else had had the nerve
I made the girl my wife
Chorus
Oh, how I love my teacher
O! how I love our flat
I must sit in the house
Just as still as a mouse
I can’t even talk to the cat
She’s the official preacher
Lectures at me she’ll hurl
And anything else
She can throw straight she pelts
Oh, how I love that girl
- She teaches me astronomy
And shows me all the stars
‘Twas through a rolling pin
That I saw Jupiter and Mars
She hit me with a dipper once
And I am here to say
If the dipper had been iron
I’d have seen the milky way
Chorus
Oh, how I love my teacher
Oh! how I am abused
If I want to go out
I must stand up and shout
Please teacher may I be excused
Oh! when I think of the fellows
It sets my head in a whirl
But I only think
Boy I can’t get a drink
Oh, how I love that girl
(there are three extra verses on the music)
Sung here by Vancha March: